Indian Meal Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Make the gruel
In a bowl, mix the meal and flour with the cold water until smooth.
Stir the mixture into the boiling water.
Stir well and reduce heat to simmer for 2 hours.
Add the salt and cook for an additional 30 minutes.
Serve
Serve with cream or milk.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Meal
- Forms the thick body of the gruel as its starch thickens during simmering.
- Flour
- Adds extra starch to help thicken the gruel and give it a smooth texture.
The step that matters
Mixing the meal and flour with cold water until smooth. Starch clumps when it hits hot liquid directly. Blending it into cold water first spreads the particles apart so they disperse evenly and the gruel thickens smoothly without lumps.
“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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