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Cracked or Rolled Wheat

A porridge made by cooking cracked wheat in boiling water for three hours, then molded and served with fruit sauce, cream, or sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cracked or Rolled Wheat

Ingredients

Directions

Cook

  1. In a double boiler, stir the cracked wheat and salt into the boiling water.

  2. Cook for three hours without stirring.

Serve

  1. Once done, mold into dishes.

  2. Serve hot or cold with fruit sauce or cream and sugar.

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

Cracked wheat
Forms the thick porridge body as its starches gelatinize and soften during long cooking.

The step that matters

Cooking without stirring. Stirring during the three-hour cook can break the grains and make the porridge gluey, so it is left alone while the grains soften gently in the double boiler.

“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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