or Burgout, a sea-faring dish, made of whole oatmeal, or groats, boiled in water till they burst; then mixed with butter. It is a cheap and strengthening diet. Burgoo, otherwise called loblolly, is held by Cockburn very proper to correct that thickness of humours and coarseness to which the other diet of sailors much disposes them. Yet the burgoo itself being the least liked of all their provisions, because of the scanty allowance of butter to it. The same author thinks it might be worth the consideration of those to whom the care of the seamen is committed, to contrive to render this food more agreeable to them.