1899 Shetland News 4 Nov. in (at cited word) ‘Heas doo mair levin i' da basin?’ ‘Yiss, a maelens-brünnie, dat's a'.’
1932 in (1965) VI. 231/1 The brünie made from the last oatmeal of the baking, often smaller than the others, was commonly called the mellin-brünie.