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Dalya or Crushed Wheat

A porridge made from dalya, boiled with water and salt, finished with dates and served with milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Dalya or Crushed Wheat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add the dalya slowly to the boiling salted water.

  2. Stir until thickened, then reduce heat to very low and cook for 30 minutes.

  3. Clean the dates, remove the stones, and cut them in half.

  4. Five minutes before serving, add the dates without stirring.

  5. Serve with hot milk, thin cream, or almond milk.

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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What each ingredient does

Dalya
Cracked wheat whose starch swells in the boiling water and thickens the porridge.
Dates
Add sweetness and a soft, chewy texture to the porridge.

The step that matters

Add the dates without stirring, five minutes before serving. Dates soften gently in the hot porridge when left undisturbed, so they keep their shape as pieces. Stirring them in would break them apart and blend them into the thickened base.

“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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