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Oatmeal Gruel

A simple oatmeal gruel cooked with water, salt, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Oatmeal Gruel

Oatmeal Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

Make the gruel

  1. Add oatmeal and salt to boiling water.

  2. Cook for 3 hours in a double boiler.

  3. Force through a strainer.

Finish and serve

  1. Dilute with cream and reheat.

  2. Strain a second time.

  3. Serve with salt or sugar.

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

Oatmeal
Provides the starch that thickens the water into a gruel with body.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, softening the flavor and texture of the thinned gruel.

“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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