Cracked Wheat
Ingredients
Directions
Combine wheat and cold water in a pot.
Add salt to taste.
Bring to a boil and cook for 30 minutes.
Serve with milk.
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
- Wheat
- Forms the bulk of the dish, softening as it cooks into a porridge-like texture.
“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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