Brose was the common meal for all the bothy lads in the farms arounf the north east of scotland. its a mixture of oatmeal and either water or milk. if they were lucky they had cabbage or neeps mixed through it. yummy eh?! Pretty stodgy i reckon.

what they used to do, if they knew they would be out on the fields all day they made up a batch of brose, put it in a drawer in their kist and then cut slices whenever they were hungry!

at the start of their term (6 months work) the farmhands were given enough oatmeal to last them for the term. This was 6 and a half bolls which is around 30 bucketfulls! and if you think that they are having brose 3 times a day, its not an awful lot to live on! no wonder they were always hungry! dont fancy it much myself like.....!