noun
porridge
POR-ij/ˈpɔːrɪdʒ/
A hot dish made by boiling oats or other grains in milk or water.
The steaming porridge has a thick texture of softened oat grains.
Etymology
Originally a thickened vegetable soup, porridge later came to mean boiled cereal. It may derive from pottage, “food cooked in a pot,” influenced by a leek-broth word—or from the leek-broth word influenced by pottage.
In context
Miller's packaged unground Farina as a healthy breakfast porridge called Cream of Wheat