单词 | grantham gruel |
释义 | > as lemmasGrantham gruel 2. A light, liquid food (chiefly used as an article of diet for invalids) made by boiling oatmeal (or occasionally some other farinaceous substance) in water or milk, sometimes with the addition of other ingredients, as butter, sugar, spices, onions, etc. Grantham gruel (see quot. 1818). See also water gruel n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > gruel or broth for invalids > [noun] gruel1362 water gruel?c1450 cullisc1460 chicken brothc1540 coulis1603 barley-milk1607 maize-cream1626 chicken water1684 barley-cream1694 thin gruel1699 viper-broth1702 wangracea1733 barley-gruel1769 beef-tea1783 conjee1789 Revalenta1848 skink1880 toast-water1905 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 169 A bolleful of gruwel. c1400 tr. Lanfranc's Cirurg. 13 He schal ete for his mete growel maad of otemele, eiþir of barli mele wiþ almaundis. c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 77 Take otenmele & cow mylke and make grewel. ?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Aiij Sethynge some grewell, and sterynge the pulment Of peese or frument. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. L iv Beane of Egypt..is good..taken wyth beane mele after the maner of grewelle. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Orgée, barlie gruell. 1634 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent 12 His appetite..neuer..needed the assistance of cawdle, iulep, alebery, cullise, grewell, or stewd-broth. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 82/2 Grewel, is a kind of Broth made only of Water, Grotes brused and Currans, some add Mace, sweet Herbs, Butter and Eggs and Sugar: some call it Pottage Gruel. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame v, in Wks. (1757) I. 123 Cooling gruel, and composing tea. 1791 W. Nicholson tr. J. A. C. Chaptal Elements Chem. III. iv. iii. 102 The Icelanders obtain a very delicate gruel with the fecula of the lichen Icelandicus. 1816 J. Austen Emma I. xii. 221 A basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin. View more context for this quotation 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 86 Thou wilt get naething at night save Grantham gruel, nine grots and a gallon of water. 1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 28 A sinful preference of roast mutton over gruel. < as lemmas |
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