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Boiled Flour

Boiled flour is made by boiling flour in a tied cloth until it becomes a hard, dry mass.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Boiled Flour

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dip a linen cloth in cold water and dredge it heavily with flour to make a crust.

  2. Place 1 pound of flour in the cloth and tie it up tightly.

  3. Boil the tied cloth until it becomes a hard, dry mass.

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

Flour
Forms the dough mass and crust that holds its shape while boiling.
Cold water
Wets the cloth so flour sticks to it and forms the outer crust.

“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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