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Graham Gruel

A warm porridge made from graham meal, water, milk or cream, and salt.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix graham meal with cold water in a bowl.

  2. Stir the mixture into boiling water.

Cook

  1. Cook for 20 minutes.

  2. Add salt to taste and boil for an additional 10 minutes.

Serve

  1. Pour ½ cup of the gruel into a cup and add ¼ cup of milk or cream.

  2. Serve hot.

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

Graham meal
Its starch thickens in the boiling water, giving the gruel its body.
Milk or cream
Adds richness and a softer, creamier mouthfeel to the gruel.

The step that matters

Stirring the graham meal into the boiling water. Mixing the meal with cold water first spreads the starch evenly. Adding it dry or all at once to boiling water can cause lumps, because the outside of each particle thickens before the inside is wet.

“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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