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Plain Gluten Gruel

A simple gruel made by boiling gluten in water and seasoning with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Plain Gluten Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stir 2 tablespoons of gluten into 1 pint of boiling water.

  2. Boil until it thickens.

  3. Add coarse sea salt to taste and serve immediately.

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

Gluten
Thickens the boiling water into a gruel as it cooks, giving it body.

“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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