General Directions for Preparing Cheap Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Boil 1¼ pints of water in a pot.
Add 1¼ ounces of barley-meal to the boiling water.
Stir continuously until the mixture thickens to a jelly-like consistency.
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
- Barley-meal
- Its starch thickens the boiling water into a jelly-like consistency as it cooks.
- Water
- Serves as the liquid base that the barley-meal starch thickens.
The step that matters
Stir continuously while adding the barley-meal. Starch granules can clump and form lumps if they hit hot liquid unstirred. Constant stirring disperses them so they swell evenly and thicken the liquid smoothly.
“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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