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Cracked Wheat Mush

A simple porridge made by boiling cracked wheat in salted water until thick.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring the water to a boil in a pot.

  2. Add the salt and stir in the cracked wheat.

  3. Boil for 12 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until it thickens.

  4. Serve warm.

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
Provides the bulk and body of the porridge as its starch swells and thickens in the boiling water.

The step that matters

Stirring while the wheat cooks. Cracked wheat settles and can scorch on the bottom of the pot, so occasional stirring keeps it from sticking and burning while the starch thickens the liquid.

“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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