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Hard-bread Mijsh or Porridge

A porridge made by mixing powdered hard bread with boiling water and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Hard-bread Mijsh or Porridge

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Combine 1 cup powdered hard bread and 1 teaspoon salt in a pot.

  2. Pour in 2 cups boiling water and mix well.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the mixture for 20 minutes, stirring frequently to prevent scorching.

  2. Serve with condensed milk or stewed dried fruit.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Hard bread
Forms the body of the porridge as it softens and thickens in the water.

The step that matters

Stirring while the mixture boils. Powdered bread settles and sticks to the base of the pot, so frequent stirring prevents scorching and keeps the texture even as the starch thickens.

“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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