Corn Meal Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Start on the stove
Bring water to a boil in a pot.
Add corn meal and salt to the boiling water.
Cook over direct heat for 15 minutes, stirring constantly.
Finish in a double boiler
Transfer to a double boiler.
Cook for 3 hours over boiling water.
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
- Corn meal
- Its starch swells in the boiling water and thickens the liquid into a gruel.
- Water
- Serves as the cooking liquid that the corn meal thickens into a smooth gruel.
The step that matters
Stir constantly over direct heat after adding the corn meal. Corn meal settles and clumps quickly in boiling water and can scorch on the bottom of the pot. Constant stirring keeps the grains dispersed so the starch hydrates evenly and the gruel stays smooth.
“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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