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Egg Gruel

Egg Gruel is a simple dish made by boiling water, adding beaten egg white, and seasoning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Egg Gruel

Egg Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil water in a pot.

  2. Add the beaten egg white to the boiling water and stir in any desired spice or flavoring.

  3. Serve warm.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Egg white
Cooks and sets in the hot water, thickening the gruel into soft, tender strands.

The step that matters

Adding the egg white to boiling water. Pouring the beaten egg white into water that is boiling creates fine cooked strands. Adding it to cooler water can leave it lumpy or thin.

“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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