Name: Cracked Wheat
Ingredients: 2 teacupfuls of wheat (about 1 cup); 4 cups of cold water; Coarse sea salt to taste

Cracked Wheat

Ingredients

2 teacupfuls of wheat (about 1 cup)
4 cups of cold water
Coarse sea salt to taste

Directions

Prepare

Rinse the wheat thoroughly with cold water.
Add 4 cups of cold water to the wheat in a basin.

Steam and serve

Place the basin in a steamer and cover it closely.
Steam for 4 to 5 hours, stirring once or twice.
Add salt to taste before serving.

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

Wheat: Forms the main body of the dish as the grains soften and swell into a tender, chewy texture.
Cold water: Hydrates the wheat grains so they soften and cook through during steaming.

“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.