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agreed. the dried fruit is higher in natural sugars & can be added whilst cooking to spread the sweetness. & it digests @ the same rate as the cooked cereal. fresh fruit with cooked cereal muddles the digestive system. & maple is natural ! but would still need a few grains of coarse sea salt.

Porage, [not porridge you notice] cooked in water poured onto a layer of mashed banana and topped with Pomegranite juice along with wholemeal toast and orange spread [non sugar sweetened with grape juice], releases energy slowly and keeps sugar levels balanced.

Hi Nella/Whoops where have you been,I missed you.

thanks R2, It's "Bice to be Nack!"

into the turpid spitting mass drop the flaked flesh of small trout prised from the embers. stir in chopped spring onion, pepper & cream. take pot & head for windy boulder, above the horned cattle, midges & plaintive bleating which troubles your sleep.

That's one spicy porridge

Plain porridge made with milk and a spoonful of golden syrup is rather good.
The slower you cook porridge the better. I'm told the very best is made overnight in an Aga or slow-cooker.

Cream, honey and a pinch of salt...

I adore the stuff Always makes me think of what it might be like if a baby was sick in my mouth

I like mine with bananas and maple syrup, throw in a few pecans for crunch! I'm hungry now...

Trouble is that what most people particularly in southern regions call porridge is not porridge at all but some sort of processed cereal.Porridge has to be made with preferably pinhead oatmeal,water and a pinch of salt and eaten with milk or cream.It has a proper taste and keeps you going all morning and not at all like the revolting mush which is sold in most shops as porridger or porage.

I make it in a cup using the microwave before i go to bed, oats and milk, not forgetting to stir frequently and dont let it boil over. Put a lid on the cup after cooking to keep the heat in (A pringle lid fits my cup perfectly). Reheat in the morning and it will be very soft. I then add sultanas and honey. Lovely I know its sacrilige but i don't add salt.

1 cup of porridge (Quaker?).
2 cups of water.
Put in pint Pyrex jug.
Put in microwave for 2 min's.
Stir and reheat in microwave till rises to top of jug.
Pour into bowl and add milk and sugar to taste.

A proper "fast food".

** Quaker Oats - A division of PepsiCo **

I'm with you Mick. It's one of the few "home grown" foods that I simply cannot eat. Probably even if my life depended on it!

Somewhat embarrassingly, rice pudding has the same effect. Embarrassing as I grew up probably 10miles from the plant making one of Devons' best known exports. The Ambrosia custard is nice though!

Yes, the Lifton/Tinhay factory! I always point it out to LEJOGers I'm riding with. That Old A30 is a fantastic cycling road.

When we had puppies, we used to buy the very cheap "seconds" rice pudding. It seems that the manufacturing process uses a long conveyor belt system. I moves along slowly and goes though a long oven to cook as it transits, but if there's a backlog somewhere, the conveyor belt is stopped making some pudding overcooked. Also they then speed up the belt and they produce some undercooked as well!

Anyway, the puppies loved it!