Indian Meal Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Mix the Indian meal with a little water until smooth.
In a pot, bring 3 cups of water to a boil and add salt.
Cook
Slowly stir in the Indian meal mixture.
Let it boil for 30 minutes.
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
- Indian meal
- Cornmeal that thickens the water into a smooth, porridge-like gruel as it cooks.
The step that matters
Slowly stir in the Indian meal mixture. Adding the meal slowly into boiling water while stirring keeps it from clumping. Lumps form when dry starch hits hot liquid all at once, and they are hard to smooth out later.
“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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