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Scotch Oatmeal Brose

Brose is a Scotch food made from oatmeal, and is perhaps the food most quickly cooked of any used by civilised men. The process is as follows. Put a handful of oatmeal into a good-sized basin, add a large pinch of salt, pour about a pint of boiling water over it, stir with the handle of a spoon, when the meal will form little lumps. Do not break the lumps, but pour in half a pint of either sweet milk or butter-milk, and the cooking will be complete. Eat immediately after cooking. Some add a piece of butter, but the brose is more wholesome without it; indeed, all preparations of oatmeal are more wholesome without the addition of any fatty substance, the oatmeal having quite enough of the heat-producing element in itself. This is a common breakfast dish among Scotch ploughmen in some districts. It cannot be recommended to sedentary persons.