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Gruel for Infants

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Gruel for Infants

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Use the best quality grain, well cleaned and properly ground.

  2. Combine the meal with water to make a thinner gruel.

  3. Cook the mixture for nearly twice as long as usual.

  4. Strain carefully before serving.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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