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C II a C K E R Panada

A warm gruel made by boiling crackers in water and sweetening them to taste.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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C II a C K E R Panada

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the crackers in a pot with the cold water.

  2. Cover the pot and heat it on the stove until it boils.

  3. Pour the mixture into a bowl, sweeten to taste, and add spice if desired.

  4. Serve warm.

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

Crackers
Break down in the water to thicken the liquid into a soft, gruel-like texture.
Cold water
Softens the crackers and, once heated, becomes the liquid that forms the gruel.

“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.