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Oat Meal Gruel

A simple oat gruel made by mixing oat meal with cold and boiling water, then simmering and skimming.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oat Meal Gruel

Oat Meal Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pour cold water over oat meal and stir well.

  2. Add boiling water and stir thoroughly.

  3. Strain through a tea strainer or coarse cloth, or let it stand for 2-3 minutes and drain off the liquid.

Cook

  1. Heat the drained liquid over the fire and stir until it boils.

  2. Cook for 10 minutes and skim.

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

Oat meal
Oats release starch as they cook, 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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