A dialectal and archaic British term for barley meal — coarsely ground flour made from barley, a dietary staple in Scotland and northern England before wheat flour became widely available.
A dialectal and archaic British term for barley meal — coarsely ground flour made from barley, a dietary staple in Scotland and northern England before wheat flour became widely available. Now largely historical, appearing mainly in texts about traditional Scottish and northern English foodways.
The old recipe called for bearmeal and water, shaped into a thick bannock and baked on the hearthstone.
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(Scotland) A wholegrain flour made from bere, a variety of barley grown in northern Scotland, Orkney, and the Shetland Islands.
(South Africa) cornmeal.
(slang, Canada) A drink of beer, typically taken as a liquid lunch.
(especially, Scotland, northern England) An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.
(Scotland) barley meal.