Name: Cereal with Fruit
Ingredients: 2 cups cereal; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 cups cold water; ½ pound dates, stoned and cut into pieces; 2 cups boiling water

Cereal with Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Mix cereal, salt, and cold water in a bowl.

Cook

Add the mixture to the boiling water on the stove.
Boil for five minutes.
Steam in a double boiler for thirty minutes.
Stir in the dates and serve with milk or cream.

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

Cereal: Forms the bulk of the porridge and thickens as its starch absorbs water and swells.
Dates: Add natural sweetness and a soft, chewy texture as they soften in the hot cereal.

“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.