I can say that you take your little porringer neat, or with bitters, or in water after every meal.

As long as I can state that you take a little porringer regularly, but never to excess, the public is satisfied.

He read them attentively and then dismissed the envoys to their tents, where their only refreshment was a little porringer full of millet.

"Very well," said the bard, "and allow me, in conclusion, one rather delicate question: Do you ever take your little porringer?"