Cracked Wheat
Ingredients
Directions
Combine cracked wheat and salted water in a steam cooker or a covered pot.
Cook for 3 hours in boiling water.
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
- Cracked wheat
- Forms the main body of the dish, softening into a tender grain as it cooks in water.
“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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