Corn Meal Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Make the gruel
Bring the water to a boil in a pot.
Add the salt and corn meal, stirring constantly.
Cook
Cook over direct heat for 15 minutes.
Place the pot over boiling water and cook for 3 hours.
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
- Corn meal
- Its starch swells as it cooks, thickening the water into a smooth, porridge-like gruel.
The step that matters
Stirring in the corn meal. Dry corn meal dropped into hot water can clump, and the outer grains then block the rest from hydrating. Stirring constantly separates the particles so the starch hydrates evenly and the gruel cooks 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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