Porridge Drawer

[g forgeron]

Please please, no more stories - funny as they are - does anyone have an authentic first  hand experience of a porridge drawer ?

[shanghaipanda]

I don't have any authentic proof either.  However, my common sense tells me that in years long past porridge would certainly have been made, and most probably kept from one meal to another in order to save fuel.  In that case, at that time, it would have been kept in wooden receptacles of one kind or another, whether bowls, or drawer shaped - possibly in the drawer to keep it away from rodents. 

[ITBookworm]

I seem to remember my Mum talking about her father using a porridge drawer. I will need to ask her and confirm if I have remembered correctly.

[Flattybasher9]

I use my "porridge drawer" as a sex aid.


It's where I get my oats 

Regards

Malky

[Treetotal]

 

Carol

[Skoosh]

"Fur coat & nae drawers" mebbes!

Skoosh.

[dowdstree]

"Fur coat & nae drawers" mebbes! That's what we call people who live in Morningside (posh part of Edinburgh) Skoosh.

Seriously , my childhood friend (we are still best pals 50 odd years on) her dad came from Caithness and was born in 1900 and I remember him telling us about the "porridge Drawer" - we were totally disgusted

Also, he mentioned "cruddie" which I think was a form of thick sour milk probably a forerunner of yoghart

Dorrie

[Rosinish]

Dorrie,

That would be "Crowdie" a cheese very similar to what is named today as "Cottage" cheese.
My grannie used to make it along with butter which was patted into balls with little wooden vessels like small bats with small ridges.

Annie

ADDED.....Both were made with sour milk

[Skoosh]

Used to get crowdie as a wean, hopefully not strained in an auld perra "drawers!"

Skoosh.