What is pourage?

Porridge is NOT OATMEAL, oatmeal is just oatmeal. What porridge actually is is maize meal that is coarsely or finely ground and is boiled up with little salt. It can be eaten with milk and sugar and a little butter, but I doubt orphans had money for that luxury.

We have 40 million Blacks in South Africa, whos' staple diet is this and they will agree with me that porridge is not oatmeal.

Ingredients

110g/4oz rolled oats

275ml/9½fl oz water or milk

2-3 tbsp maple syrup

Method

1. Place the oats and water or milk in a small pan.

2. Bring to the boil, stirring to encourage the porridge to thicken.

3. When the porridge has thickened (about 5-7 minutes), remove from the heat.

4. Pour the porridge into bowls.

5. Top with maple syrup and serve.

it's PORRIDGE!

wanna make one?

BANANA PORRIDGE

INGREDIENTS

3 Green bananas

1 pt Water

½ pt Coconut milk

½ tsp Ground cinnamon

½ tsp Freshly grated nutmeg

2 tbsp Wholemeal flour

Soy milk or wate

Raw cane sugar

METHOD

1. Peel the green bananas by slicing off both ends then splitting them lengthways cutting through to the flesh and prising off the skins.

2. Grate or blend the bananas in an electric blender.

3. Beat in the water and coconut milk until the mixture is smooth.

4. Pour into a saucepan.

5. Over a gentle heat bring the pan to the boil and simmer for 15–20 minutes until the mixture is cooked.

6. Add the cinnamon, nutmeg and the wholemeal flour which should be blended to a thin paste with a little milk or water.

7. Stir while the porridge thickens and cook for a further 10 minutes.

8. Serve in bowls thickly sprinkled with raw cane sugar.

bythe way...i like your pic... reminds me of my ex... tee-hee:-)

Porridge is a simple dish made by boiling oats (normally crushed oats, occasionally oatmeal) or another meal in water, milk or both. Oat and semolina porridge are by far the most popular varieties. Some other meals used for porridge include rice, wheat, peasemeal, barley, and cornmeal.

In many cultures, it is eaten as a breakfast, often with the addition of sugar or cream. As the traditional breakfast of Scotland (where it is also spelled porage, after a popular brand name of oats) it is made with salt. Some manufacturers of breakfast cereal sell "ready-made" versions; aficionados question whether these can truly be called porridge. Gruel is a thin porridge made with water.

Porridge...just one of those things like grits and oatmeal. Not sure what it's made of though.

I think Americans call it oatmeal. Its oats and milk served warm

Its a breakfast cereal and it is usually called Porridge and it has lots of vitamins and fiber

It is like a soup, but is sweeter, for short, oatmeals are used...

its porridge and its like oatmeal or cream of wheat

oatmeal