sowens

How to use sowens in a sentence

• Sowans, sowens; a sort of flummery or gruel usually made and eaten on Hallow Eve.

  English As We Speak It in Ireland | P. W. Joyce

• "sowens is—or are—good," decided Dr. Watkins, tasting his cake slowly, and pronouncing judgment on it after due deliberation.

  Ethel Morton's Holidays | Mabell S. C. Smith

• sowens, pottage made of the dust in oatmeal seeds steeped and soured.

  The Proverbs of Scotland | Alexander Hislop

• sowens, with butter instead of milk to them, is always the Halloween supper.

  The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. | Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

• sowens, a dish made by steeping, fermenting, and then boiling the husks or siftings of oats in water.

  Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland | J. Maxwell Wood