drammach
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[edit]Noun
[edit]drammach (uncountable)
- A simple Scots food made from oatmeal and water.
- 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
- We lay there (for the banks hid us), drank again and again, bathed our chests, let our wrists trail in the running water till they ached with the chill; and at last, being wonderfully renewed, we got out the meal-bag and made drammach in the iron pan.
- 1991, Diana Gabaldon, chapter 25, in Outlander, London: Random House:
- Jamie had a few handfuls of oats in a small bag in his sporran, and forced me to eat drammach - oats mixed with cold water.