That is called a brewis, my dear; suppose we give it to our pampered family here some day, and see what they say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hildegarde's Neighbors] Reference

I have had my first, and I may add my last, experience of "brewis," an indeterminate concoction much in favour as an article of diet on this coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour] Reference

The first Háshim got his name from crumbling bread into the Saríd or brewis of the Meccan pilgrims during “The Ignorance.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Nokka brewis goo, honowin nudwag moonoo shugh kawmun menjeis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit of Women Fourth Edition] Reference

In an early letter to you I recall judging harshly a concoction called "brewis.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour] Reference

"I'll remember that, the next time we have brown-bread brewis!" said his mother smiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merryweathers] Reference

Spread those that are not eaten, and let them dry, to be pounded for puddings, or soaked for brewis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Frugal Housewife] Reference

I hated to suggest it to her, but I have a lurking suspicion that the catastrophe had some not too distant connection with the "brewis.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour] Reference

When day, peeping in the east, made the sky turn from black to red like a boiling lobster, he waked us again to take a dish of monastical brewis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference

Then to suppress the dew and bad air, he breakfasted on fair fried tripe, fair grilled meats, fair hams, fair hashed capon, and store of sipped brewis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I] Reference

The youth returned his greeting and going into the house, brought out two platters, one full of milk and the other of brewis swimming in (clarified) butter, which he set before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II] Reference

The man in the play, who wished for ` some forty pounds of lovely beef, placed in a Mediterranean sea of brewis, 'might have seen his ample desires almost realized at the table d'hôte of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hyperion] Reference

The man in the play, who wished for ` some forty pounds of lovely beef, placed in a Mediterranean sea of brewis, 'might have seen his ample desires almost realized at the table d'hôte of the Rheinischen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hyperion] Reference

Bring of the best, rinse the glasses, lay the cloth, drive out these dogs, blow this fire, light candles, shut that door there, cut this bread in sippets for brewis, send away these poor folks in giving them what they ask, hold my gown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2] Reference

You will find us all of a piece, and, having been accustomed to eat in saucers abroad, I am ashamed you should witness our larded capons, our mountains of beef, and oceans of brewis, as large as Highland hills and lochs; but you shall see better cheer to-morrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

Before the king it was forth brought: Quod his men, ‘Lord, we have pork sought; Eates and sups of the brewis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talisman] Reference

The kitchen brewis that was ever supt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idylls of the King] Reference

“we are in the mood of the monks when they are merriest, and that is when they sup beef-brewis for lanten-kail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

That day the brewis spoiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyndham Towers] Reference

And supped of the brewis a sup.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talisman] Reference

Eates and sups of the brewis soote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talisman] Reference

Monastical brewis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference

 3, brewis, or broth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early English Meals and Manners] Reference

There were Georges on horseback, chickens in brewis, cygnets, capons of high grease, carpes of venison, herons, calvered salmon, custards planted with garters, tarts closed with arms, godwits, peafowl, halibut engrailed, porpoise in armour, pickled mullets, perch in foyle, venison pasties, hypocras jelly, and mainemy royal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Windsor Castle] Reference

Sometimes for variety you may make brewis with some fresh beef or good mutton broth, with some of the fat of the beef-pot; put it in a pipkin with some large mace, a handful of parsley and sorrel grosly chopped, and some pepper, boil them together, and scald the bread, then lay on the boil'd tongue, mace, and some of the herbs, run it over with beaten butter, slic't lemon, gooseberries, barberries, or grapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery] Reference