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Take a knife (a 'spurtle' is the proper utensil) in the right hand, and some Scotch, or coarse, oatmeal in the left hand, and sprinkle the meal in gradually, stirring it briskly all the time; if any lumps form draw them to the side of the pan and crush them out.— Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
She left the spurtle sticking in the porridge, and dropped into the laird's chair.— Warlock o' Glenwarlock
Ye rin for the spurtle when the pat's boiling ower.— The Proverbs of Scotland
Judith's big maple bread-bowl, the churn-dash, spurtle, sedge-broom, and— Judith of the Cumberlands
She laid down the porridge spurtle like a queen abdicating her sceptre.— The Dew of Their Youth

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