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Oatmeal Gruel or Any Cereal

A simple oatmeal gruel made by boiling water or milk with salt and oatmeal, then cooking slowly and straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oatmeal Gruel or Any Cereal

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring the water or milk to a boil and add the salt.

  2. Stir in the oatmeal and cook in a double boiler for 1 to 2 hours.

  3. Strain before serving.

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 starch that thickens the liquid into a gruel as it cooks.
Water or milk
Forms the liquid base that the oatmeal hydrates and softens in.

“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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