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Oatmeal Gruel

A simple gruel made by boiling oatmeal with water and salt, then thinning with milk.

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

Oatmeal Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine oatmeal, water, and salt.

  2. Boil slowly until the mixture reduces to 1 quart.

  3. Strain the gruel and thin it with milk to your desired consistency.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Provides starch that thickens the water into a porridge-like gruel as it cooks.
Milk
Adds creaminess and softens the texture when stirred in to thin the gruel.

The step that matters

Boil slowly until the mixture reduces to 1 quart. Gentle simmering lets the oat starch hydrate and thicken evenly, while a hard boil can scorch the bottom of the pot and make the gruel gluey or unevenly textured.

“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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