Cracked Wheat
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Bring water to a boil in the outer pot of a double boiler.
Add cracked wheat and salt to the inner pot with the boiling water.
Cook
Cover and cook for three hours or until the wheat is light and porous.
Do not stir while cooking.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Cracked wheat
- Forms the porridge's body, softening into a light, porous texture as it cooks slowly.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates and gelatinizes the wheat starch, turning the grain into a soft, spoonable porridge.
The step that matters
Do not stir while cooking. Stirring breaks up the softening grains and releases starch, which can make the porridge gummy and uneven. Leaving it undisturbed lets the wheat cook gently into separate, tender grains.
“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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