Porridge is a soft food made by boiling oats (normally crushed oats, occasionally oatmeal) or another meal in water or milk. Some other meals used for porridge include wheat, peasemeal, barley, or cornmeal. In many cultures it is eaten as a breakfast, often with the addition of sugar or cream. Some manufacturers of breakfast cereal sell "ready-made" versions.
... vast mass of mankind, who can not be recluses,
are called.
The charge has even been made that
the piety commended by the "Imitation" is of a
selfish monkish type. It ...