Farina Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Bring 1 quart of water to a boil in a pot.
Add 1 teaspoon of salt to the boiling water.
In a bowl, mix 3 tablespoons of farina with 3 tablespoons of cold water.
Cook
Stir the farina mixture into the boiling water continuously.
Boil for 5 minutes after it starts boiling.
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
- Farina
- Wheat starch and fine particles thicken the water into a smooth gruel as it cooks.
- Cold water
- Mixing the farina with cold water first keeps it from clumping when added to the hot water.
The step that matters
Stir the farina mixture into the boiling water continuously. Farina clumps when it hits hot liquid unevenly. Constant stirring spreads the particles so they hydrate evenly, giving a smooth gruel rather than lumps.
“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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