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Porridge


POR'RIDGE,noun [Latin farrago, or from porrum, a leek.]

A kind of food made by boiling meat in water; broth.

This mixture is usually called in America, broth or soup, but not porridge With us, porridge is a mixture of meal or flour, boiled with water. Perhaps this distinction is not always observed.