sowans

'She'll no' fend for ye the way I can, 'returned Meg,' for I can bake an 'mak ye sowans, scones, brose, kail o' all kinds, an 'parritch.'

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

The meal, which was steeped in the _sowans bowie_ a fortnight ago to make the _Prechdacdan sour_, or

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

_Lagan-le-vrich_, or yeast bread, to distinguish it from boiled sowans, is ready.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

The frumenty eaten on Christmas eve or morning in England, and the sowans in Scotland, seem to be imitations of the offerings paid to Hulda or Berchta, to whom the people looked for new stores of grain.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant

The baking being once over, the sowans pot succeeds the gridiron, full of new sowans, which are to be given to the family, agreeably to custom, this day in their beds.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

The sowans are boiled into the consistence of molasses, when the

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

The baking being once over, the sowans pot succeeds the gridiron, full of new sowans, which are to be given to the family, agreeably to custom, this day in their beds.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

The meal, which was steeped in the _sowans-bowie_ a fortnight ago, to make the

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

[94] This custom may be compared with the Scotch eating of sowans in bed on Christmas morning (see Chapter XII.).

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

“Thin, why don’t you come to your supper, Mary, ” said the husband, “while the sowans are warm?

The Lianhan Shee 1921