OATMEAL FOR THE QUEEN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 65, 8 May 1869, Page 5

OATMEAL FOR THE QUEEN.

The " Dumfries Standard " says .—

" Eor a considerable time past quai ties of oatmeal have been supplied our worthy townsman, Mr. Hamili of Casfclebank Mill, to the househ of Q.uecn Victoria; and a few d ago he received an order for seve stones of the sauw nutritious articL food for the Queen's own use. r i annual sojourns made by her Maje and the royal family in ' The L xnd Cakes ' have familiarised them in so degree with the advantages of an oa diet ; and we have reason to beli that not unfrequently meal baked boiled, sits side by side with the ot dainty dishes pbced upon the re board." And our contemporary c trasts this royal favour with Jo son's famous depreciatory definition oats being a grain which in Engl is generally given to horses, but Scotland supports the people. IS it is a dainty dish to set before Queen ! Swift was the first to p< the national sarcasm about oats, in quizzing the Scotch — "that n< nation " — the Dean refers to thegr " which at little trouble and less pense, finds diet and lodging for th selves and their cattle." Greorge usod to gratify the taste palate of Lord Eldon, by commanc " liver and lights " to be served uj his dinner-table whenever the Chancellor was a guest, but a "bid of oatmeal porridge on the royal b( at Windsor, seems fully as rev tionary an innovation. "We live wonderful area!" (era) as the E burgh bailio sagely remarked. Majesty, however, has the courage wiadon\to follow simple natural ta and roy^J^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^HH