Corn Meal Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wet the corn meal in cold water.
In a gruel pan, bring 1 quart of water to a boil.
Make the gruel
Dip a spoonful of the corn meal mixture into the boiling water and stir.
Continue adding spoonfuls of the mixture, stirring until the gruel reaches the desired consistency.
Boil briskly for 20 minutes or more.
Add salt to taste.
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
- Corn meal
- Forms the thickened body of the gruel as its starch swells and gelatinizes in boiling water.
The step that matters
Adding the corn meal mixture in spoonfuls. Adding the wet corn meal gradually while stirring keeps the starch dispersed. Dumping it in at once would clump into lumps that cannot be smoothed out.
“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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