Classic Porridge

Oats probably arrived in Britain mixed in with other seeds brought by immigrants, and became particularly useful, as they grew more comfortably in more northerly, colder and wetter parts of the country, where few other cereals would survive. Oats became – and remained – a major crop in the north of England, in Ireland and Scotland, and oatmeal pottage – porridge – still survives, as do a number of other oat dishes.

Porridge is eaten all over Scotland, and many other parts of the wor