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Graham Gruel

A simple porridge made by boiling water, adding salt, cold water, and graham meal, then simmering for 30 minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Graham Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

Make the gruel

  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.

Serve

  1. 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

Water
Forms the liquid base that the graham meal thickens as it cooks.
Graham meal
Thickens the water into a porridge as its starch swells when cooked.

The step that matters

Stirring during the 30-minute boil. Starch in the meal settles and can stick to the bottom of the pot and scorch. Stirring now and then keeps the gruel smooth and evenly thickened.

“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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