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Cracked Wheat

A porridge made by boiling cracked wheat with water and salt, served hot or chilled with cream and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cracked Wheat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stir 1 cup of cracked wheat and 1 teaspoon of salt into 4 cups of boiling water in a double boiler.

  2. Boil for 2 hours.

  3. Serve hot for breakfast or pour into a mold and serve cold with cream and sugar for luncheon.

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

Cracked wheat
Its starch swells and gelatinizes in hot water, thickening the liquid into a porridge.

“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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