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Cracker Panada

A beverage made by boiling crackers in water, straining, and sweetening with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 2 ingredients
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Cracker Panada

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break the crackers into pieces.

  2. Boil them for fifteen minutes in one quart of water.

  3. Remove from the fire and let them stand for three or four minutes.

  4. Strain the liquid through a fine wire sieve.

  5. Season with sugar.

By F. L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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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What each ingredient does

Hard crackers
Provide starch that thickens the water into a light, binding liquid as they cook and break down.

“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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