Citations:skilly

English citations of skilly

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• 1845 House of Commons papers, Parts 1-2, Great Britain Parliament, House of Commons, p511

  Breakfast, skilly or oatmeal porridge, one point nine o’clock A.M. [...] Supper, one point of skilly, half pound of bread, five o-clock.

• 1903 Jack London, The People of the Abyss, Macmillan

  I would be given for supper six ounces of bread and ‘three parts of skilly.’ ‘Three parts’ means three-quarters of a pint, and ‘skilly’ is a fluid concoction of three quarts of oatmeal stirred into three buckets and a half of hot water.

• 1915 Joseph K. Griffis, Tahan, out of savagery into civilization: an autobiography, George H. Doran company, p156

  For breakfast we had coffee, “skilly” – oatmeal mush with syrup – and bread; for dinner, a small piece of beef, varied with prok and beans once a week [...]

• 1984 John Fletcher Clews Harrison, The common people: a history from the Norman Conquest to the present, Taylor & Francis, p239

  The meagre meals were always preceded by prayers (‘a fine piece of mockery’) and the main diet was bread and skilly. Shaw had heard of workhouse skilly (soup made of oatmeal and water) but had never before seen it.

• 1986 John Knott, Popular opposition to the 1834 Poor Law, Volume 1986, Part 2, Taylor & Francis, p140

  ‘Skilly’ was the slang term for the gruel, or oatmeal soup, which was rumoured to be served in the new bastiles. Much to the amusement of bystanders, the ‘skilly’ was raised up every now and again in a ladle and one of the Chartists would shout, ‘soup, four quarts a penny’.

• 2007 Bill Griffiths, Stotty 'n' Spice Cake: The Story of North East Cooking, Northumbria University Press, p41

  A much thinner sort of porridge, called 'skilly', was served in prisons and workhouses.

• 2007 Scott A. Johnson & Kim Paffenroth, History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology, Permuted Press, p198

  Then he followed the others to the dining hall for a meal of stale bread and skilly – a sort of oatmeal mixed with tepid water so unclean Nettle doubted a dog would drink it – and he would have received that meal had he not had the misfortune to pass Bill on his way inside.