gruel

Herring is blended into a gruel and slid “down the hatch” three times a day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

That sort of bad art is thin gruel compared to really bad art: works that are ethically perverse, immoral or debauched.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

It became something closer to porridge, or gruel, which delighted me.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

By historical standards that’s pretty thin gruel, and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says it even might overstate job creation.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

“No, Yuni, there’s nothing you could have done,” Doha’s mother said as she entered his room holding a bowl of rice gruel.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

Agriculture softened our ancestors’ diets with processed gruels, stews and yogurts, and this fare led to gradually shrinking lower jaws to produce today’s overcrowded mouths.”

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2019

Few had ever received Red Cross packages; their guards, almost to a man, had engaged in graft which cut prison fare to watery soups, half-spoiled vegetables, and chalky gruels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Light gruels are best for allaying inflammation, and restoring the tone of the stomach.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen

These preparations are found valuable to mix with wheaten flour for bread, to make biscuits, pastry, pie-crusts, and for all soups, gruels, and panada.

From The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual by William Kitchiner

The milk or milk gruels answer the purpose more efficiently and without bad results.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit