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Oatmeal Gruel

A simple oatmeal gruel made by simmering oatmeal in boiling water and straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Oatmeal Gruel

Oatmeal Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sift 2 tablespoons of oatmeal into 1 quart of boiling water.

  2. If the oatmeal is coarse, boil for 1 hour.

  3. Strain through a gravy strainer.

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
Thickens the water into a gruel as its starch swells and softens when boiled.

“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.