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Oat Meal Gruel

A simple gruel made by boiling oatmeal in water, seasoned with salt and optionally sweetened with sugar, milk, or cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Oat Meal Gruel

Oat Meal Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sprinkle oatmeal into boiling water.

  2. Boil for 60 minutes.

  3. Season with salt.

  4. Strain.

  5. Add sugar, milk, or cream if desired.

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 gelatinizes in boiling water, thickening the liquid into a porridge.

“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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