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Oatmeal Gruel and Milk

A simple oatmeal gruel made with oatmeal, sugar, and boiling water, served hot or cold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oatmeal Gruel and Milk

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine oatmeal and sugar.

  2. Fill the bowl with boiling water and stir until dissolved.

  3. Pour off the liquid and drink hot or cold.

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 grain base and body that thickens the gruel as it soaks.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and dissolves into the hot water to flavour the liquid.
Boiling water
Hydrates the oatmeal and carries the dissolved sugar, making the drink.

“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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