Oatmeal Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Mix smoothly a dessert spoonful of meal with two cold water.
Pour the mixture on a pint of boiling water.
Let it boil for fifteen minutes, stirring all the time.
Add sugar or salt as preferred.
Wine is sometimes used.
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. See the original page.
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The step that matters
Stirring throughout the boil. Oats thicken as their starch swells and gelatinises in hot water. Constant stirring keeps the meal dispersed so it does not clump or scorch on the bottom of the pan.
“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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