Water-Gruel Made in the Quickest Manner
Ingredients
Directions
Mix the ground oatmeal with enough hot water to make it liquid.
Gradually pour in the boiling water while stirring to keep it smooth.
Pour the mixture from one basin to another until it cools enough to drink.
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
- Ground oatmeal
- Thickens the water into a light, starchy liquid as it cooks and is stirred.
The step that matters
Gradually pour in the boiling water while stirring. Adding the boiling water slowly while stirring keeps the oatmeal from clumping, so the gruel stays smooth and evenly thickened instead of lumpy.
“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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