[Sca-cooks] Re: cold cereal and milk

[Johnna Holloway]

I shall have to do some more looking but my thought about this
aspect was along the lines that cows were milked early in the am
and that there would have been fresh milk avavilable in the morning
that could have been used.
F, Marion McNeill who wrote The Scots Kitchen also did a book on
breakfasts and that seems to me to be the place to start this search as
regards milk and porridge. She included a lot of material besides recipes as
I recall.
I have to do some early text work in the next couple of days.  I'll try and
see what Dr. Moffet/Muffett  has to say on the matter.

Johnna

Terry Decker wrote:

> What is the evidence for putting milk on porridge, as opposed to 
> cooking the meal in milk?  Was adding milk to hot cereal common 
> practice in 1877 when the first cold cereal was developed or may not 
> the practice of adding milk to hot cereal have grown out of the 
> practice of adding milk to cold cereal?
>
> Bear
>
>> Using one of those leaps of logic we all so detest, I hypothesize 
>> that putting milk on cold cereal was a natural evolutionary 
>> progression from putting milk on porrige.
>>
>> Berelinde,
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