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Water Gruel

A simple gruel made by boiling water with cornmeal or oatmeal, optionally sweetened or salted.

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

Water Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the water in a pot.

  2. Add the cornmeal or oatmeal and cook for 10 to 15 minutes.

  3. Stir in sugar or salt if desired.

  4. Serve warm.

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

Cornmeal or oatmeal
Its starch swells as it cooks in water, thickening the liquid into a soft 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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