gruel

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

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

If you can have the "full-fat option", he asks, why would you go for the "fairly thin gruel" on offer at the moment?

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

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

“The market had expected a confident story of further margin development and was instead served a thin gruel as far as 2030 guidance was concerned.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

But made into a gruel it allayed the children’s craving for a time and put something into their distended, empty bellies.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

The diet should consist of milk, broths, or thin gruels, and plenty of water should be allowed.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow

Convalescence should be followed with sedative medicines, and during all the severe stages of the disease, withhold all food, except light gruels after protracted abstinence.

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

Gelatin, soft eggs, soft toast, fine cereal gruels, well-cooked rice, well-baked white potatoes, tender rare beefsteak or lamb chops, the breast of chicken, sweetbreads, and brains are recommended.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit