Wheatmeal Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Boil water in a pot.
Add coarsely ground wheatmeal to the boiling water.
Stir continuously until the mixture thickens.
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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