text:  A pot of water is put on the fire to boil a task which the men take in turns; a handful or two of oatmeal is taken out of the small chest with which each man provides himself and put into a wooden bowl which also is the ploughman's property; and on a hollow being made in the meal and sprinkled with salt the boiling water is poured over the meal and the mixture receiving a little stirring with a horn spoon and the allowance of milk poured over it the brose is ready to be eaten; and as every man makes his own brose and knows his own appetite he makes just as much brose as he can consume