Name: Mrs. Lincoln’s Oatmeal Gruel
Ingredients: ½ cup coarse oatmeal; 2 cups cold water; ¼ teaspoon salt

Mrs. Lincoln’s Oatmeal Gruel

Ingredients

½ cup coarse oatmeal
2 cups cold water
¼ teaspoon salt

Directions

Prepare the oatmeal

Peel the oatmeal until it is mealy.
Place the oatmeal in a glass and fill it with cold water. Stir well and let it settle.
Carefully pour off the water into a saucepan, repeating this process three times.

Cook and serve

Boil the water for twenty minutes.
Add the salt, strain, and serve hot.
Optionally, mix in cream or essence of beef as desired.

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.