[Sca-cooks] Re: cold cereal and milk

[Terry Decker]

I assumed a cereal porridge.  And I happen to prefer my oatmeal with milk or 
cream.  But our personal likes and dislikes have nothing to do with the 
historical precedent.

I can make a case for porridge prepared with milk or cream, but I haven't 
found much to show that porridge was served with milk or cream.  As for the 
idea of milk toast, interesting, but closer to sops rather than boiled meal.

Bear



> And what about those of us who don't put milk on it <<shudder>>, assuming
> that by saying "porridge," she means "oatmeal or similar, cooked cereal
> grains?"
> I put butter/margarine on mine.  On very rare occasions, maybe cream.  But
> milk, never.  Ick. ;o)
> All this of course, suggests (at least to me and mine) that there *isn't* 
> a
> natural progression from hot cereals with milk to cold cereals with milk.
> --Maire, playing along (but I really don't like oatmeal-and-milk)