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Brose and Butter
Robert Burns
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Brose
is a Scots word for a dish of oatmeal mixed with water or milk,
and eaten with salt and butter. Unlike porridge, brose is not
cooked. In the sixteenth century, a mixture of oatmeal and
water was carried by shepherds; brose resulted from the
agitation of the mixture as they climbed the hills. Modern
recipes call for boiling water or milk to be mixed into the
meal. Brose could also be made with barley meal, peasemeal, or
a mixture of different meals. Other ingredients, such as nettle
tops, kale, and swede may be added to the basic brose.
Robert Burns was partial to a bit of a rude
sing-song and replaced a lot of his own songs words with words
your mother wouldn’t sing, but your granny might.
The poem is code about having sex, for which
brose and butter is a code name, as is "supper" and being "at
her". Code words are also employed for the male and female sex
organs.
Brose and
Butter is the “Dinner Call” for the Scot’s Guard.
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Poem by Robert Burns
Gie my love
brose, brose
Gie my love brose and butter
Aye gie my love brose
Yestreen he wanted his supper
Jenny was up at
the laft
Johnny would fain ha' been at her
A wind came oot o' the west
Made all the windows to clatter
Gie my love
brose ...
A dow is a dainty dish
The goose is hollow within
The sight would make you blush
But aw the fun
is to finishing |
Gie my love brose ...
My daddie sent me to the mill
To pull my minnie some heather
And drive it intae yur fill
Yur welcome tae the leather
Gie my love brose ...
A mouse is a merry wee beast
The moodiewark wants the een
And oh for a touch o the thing
I had by me yestreen oh
Gie my
love brose ...
The lark she lo'es the grass
The hen she lo'es the stibble
And hey for the gardner lad
Tae gully away wi' his dibble
Gie my love
brose ... |
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