Mashlum Bannock

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Mashlum is a Scottish expression for a mixture made with a mixture of flours, rather than entirely from one grain, such as oatmeal, barley or wheat.

In English, we'd just say "mixed grain."


Literature & Lore
"Tell you guid bluid o' auld Boconnock's
I'll be his debt twa mashlum bonnocks..."

-- Robert Burns. "The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer". 1786.

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