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Whole Wheat

Whole wheat flour steamed in boiling water, served cold with maple syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Whole Wheat

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cake

  1. Sift the whole wheat meal into the boiling water.

  2. Add salt to taste.

  3. Cook in a double boiler, steaming for 1 to 2 hours until thoroughly cooked.

Serve

  1. Serve cold, sliced, and drizzled with maple syrup.

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

Whole wheat meal
Forms the body of the cake, setting into a firm, sliceable texture as it cooks.

“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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