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Use them as a topping on your next salad, turn them into a sweet or spicy afternoon pick-me-up, or mix them into breakfast dishes like yogurt, porridge, and granola.—Caroline Tien, SELF, 10 Mar. 2025 In parts of Eastern Europe it is used as a grain for breakfast cereal and in the Jewish culture, it is used to make kasha, a kind of porridge.—Karen Billing, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025 Technically, porridge is any cereal grain that is cooked in milk or water.—Tammy Algood, The Tennessean, 10 Feb. 2025 Instead of oatmeal, try a breakfast porridge with cooked barley.—Kathi Valeii Published, Verywell Health, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for porridge
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The sound change is peculiar. Perhaps there was some anticipatory voicing of -tt- and the resultant voiced stop was taken as a rhotic tap. Compare the same change in porringer.
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