boiley
Boiley is a Geordie (northeast England) dialect word for a traditional simple meal of milk and bread boiled together — a basic, warming dish from working-class Northern English food culture.
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Boiley is a Geordie (northeast England) dialect word for a traditional simple meal of milk and bread boiled together — a basic, warming dish from working-class Northern English food culture. It's the kind of humble comfort food that generations of Tyneside families grew up on, especially as a breakfast or supper for children. The name is endearingly straightforward: you boil the stuff together and there you go. Part culinary history, part linguistic window into life in Newcastle and surrounding areas.
On cold mornings his nan always had a pot of boiley on the stove before the school run.
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(Geordie) A meal of milk and bread boiled.
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