Pearl Wheat
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the pearl wheat overnight in soft water.
Drain the water into the inner cup of a double boiler.
Heat the inner cup to boiling.
Cook
Slowly add the wheat to the boiling water, stirring often.
Boil rapidly for 10-15 minutes.
Transfer the cooked wheat to the outer cup of the double boiler with boiling water.
Steam
Steam for about 3 hours.
Remove the cover for the last 20-30 minutes of cooking.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Pearl wheat
- Its starch swells and softens as it absorbs water and heat, giving the grain its tender texture.
The step that matters
Adding the wheat to boiling water. Adding the wheat slowly and stirring often keeps the grains separated. Dropped in all at once, they can clump and cook unevenly as the starch on their surfaces gelatinizes.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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