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Oatmeal Gruel

A simple gruel made by soaking oatmeal, then boiling it with water and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oatmeal Gruel

Oatmeal Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the oatmeal overnight in water to remove acid gases.

  2. Pour off the soaking water and add 1 pint of fresh water.

  3. Stir well, add salt, and boil for 1.5 hours.

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

Oatmeal
Its starch thickens the water as it cooks, giving the gruel body and softening the grains.

The step that matters

Boiling long enough. Starch in oats only swells and thickens fully with sustained heat. Stirring the pot well keeps the oats from settling and scorching on the bottom.

“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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