Gruel: alternatives and connections

A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -…

To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves.

Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.

A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.

Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., accor…

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.

Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.

The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part…

A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.

To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and w…

Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous coll…

A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk.

Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water.

Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.

A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked.