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Graham Gruel

A simple gruel made with graham meal, water, milk or cream, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Graham Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix the graham meal with cold water.

  2. Stir this mixture into the boiling water.

Cook

  1. Cook for 20 minutes.

  2. Add salt to taste and boil for an additional 10 minutes.

Serve

  1. Pour ½ cup of the gruel into a cup and add ¼ cup of milk or cream.

  2. Serve hot.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Graham meal
Forms the thick body of the gruel as its starch cooks and swells in the water.
Milk or cream
Adds richness and softens the flavor of the gruel with fat and milk sugars.

The step that matters

Stirring the graham meal into the boiling water. Adding the meal to boiling water all at once can form lumps as the outside of each particle swells before the inside wets. Stirring it in steadily, after first mixing it smooth with cold water, helps the starch disperse evenly so the gruel cooks to a uniform texture.

“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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