Method of Cooking Cereal
Ingredients
Directions
Bring water to a boil in the inner part of a double boiler.
Add salt, then slowly pour in the corn meal while stirring with a fork.
Continue boiling until the mixture thickens.
Place the inner part of the double boiler into the lower part with boiling water.
Cook until the cereal is soft, at least 20 minutes.
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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What each ingredient does
- Coarse corn meal
- Forms the body of the porridge as its starch thickens and softens during cooking.
The step that matters
Adding the corn meal slowly while stirring. Pouring cornmeal in slowly and stirring keeps the particles separated so they hydrate evenly, preventing lumps and a gummy, uneven 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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