Boiled Flour
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the cloth
Tie the flour tightly in a close linen cloth.
Moisten the cloth with water.
Dredge the cloth well with flour to form a coating.
Boil and set
Boil for four to five hours.
Let the flour remain tied in the cloth until it is cold.
Finish
Grate the solid lump before using.
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
- Flour
- Forms the dense solid lump that cooks into a firm, starchy mass when boiled.
- Water
- Moistens the cloth so the flour coating forms and the flour is cooked by steam and moisture.
The step that matters
Dredging the cloth well with flour. A thick, even flour coating forms a protective crust during boiling, so the inside cooks into a single solid lump rather than breaking up or soaking through the cloth.
“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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