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Indian Meal Gruel

A simple gruel made from meal, water, salt, and milk, boiled for an hour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Indian Meal Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the meal with cold water.

  2. Add the boiling water and boil for 1 hour.

  3. Stir in the salt and milk before serving.

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

Meal
Its starch thickens the water into a gruel as it cooks.
Milk
Adds richness and softness to the finished gruel.

“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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