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Graham Gruel

A simple gruel made with graham meal, water, salt, and optional cream or milk.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, bring 1 pint of water to a boil.

  2. Add ½ teaspoon of salt and 4 tablespoons of cold water.

  3. Whisk in 1 tablespoon of graham meal.

  4. Boil for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

  5. Serve with cream or milk.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Graham meal
Its starch swells and thickens the boiling water into a porridge-like gruel.

The step that matters

Whisk in the graham meal. Adding dry meal to liquid while whisking separates the particles before the starch hydrates, so the gruel stays smooth instead of forming 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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