drammach

English

Noun

drammach (uncountable)

1. 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.