brose

Oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk.

I had not far to seek for him: he stood waiting in the passage, for the cooling of his brose.

A diminutive of the male given name Ambrose.

Take poor Brose, who was actually christened Ambrose. A thing like that could simply warp a person's life, if he wasn't a good enough fighter to make the other kids start calling him by some nickname at an early age.