What does pottage mean?

Answer 1

an oat based breakfast dish.

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He doesnt know what he is talking about. Pottage is not an oat based breakfast dish that is porridge. Pottage was a meal created in the middle ages made of vegetables, and if they were lucky enough, meat. It is often eaten with bread. It is just like a thin vegetable stew with meat. It is pretty good.

Try it.

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Pottage in the middle ages usually did include oats, or grains such as barley, because grains were a staple of the medieval diet. The term pottage is a generic term, like "soup" is today, but it was limited to what the people of the day had access to.

A typical peasants pottage would include a mixture of peas or lentils, mixed with some kind of grain(probably barely in most cases), with vegetables from their personal gardens added in, usually leeks, onions or cabbage. They also may be able to season it with local herbs such as thyme, and maybe a bit of salt.

Wheat sold for more money on the open market, so manors would usually sell their wheat crop and consume the barely. Barely was the poor man's grain. I usually put oats in my pottage though. Gives it a nice thick texture.

It's actually a pretty good meal once you get used to it! I make it all the time. Cheap, healthy, filling, easy to make.

LOL. ppl trying to be smart... Look, if people still keep saying it is something else or try to "improve" it and you're getting confused, just know that it was something eaten in the middle ages.

Answer 2

Pottage means a thick soup or broth