oat-and-water

Updated: May 7, 2025

Gentle and simple, all fared alike a whang of barley bannock, a stirabout of oat-and-water, without salt, a quaich of spirits from some kegs the troopers carried, that ran done before the half of the corps had been served. Sentinels were posted, and we slept till the morning pipe with sweet weariness in our bones. Our second day was a repetition of the first.

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn