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Scottish Crowdie

Crowdie is a Scottish porridge made from maize meal, milk or water, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Scottish Crowdie

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the maize meal with the cold milk or water gradually.

  2. Stir the mixture in a saucepan over medium heat until it thickens, about 10 to 15 minutes.

  3. Alternatively, mix the meal with part of the liquid, then pour it into the remaining boiling liquid.

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

Maize meal
Its starch thickens the liquid as it heats, giving the crowdie its body.
Milk or water
Provides the liquid that the maize starch swells in and sets into a thick mass.

The step that matters

Adding the meal to the liquid gradually. Maize meal clumps when dropped into liquid all at once, because the outside of each particle hydrates before the inside. Mixing it in gradually, or stirring it into part of the liquid first, keeps the meal dispersed so it thickens smoothly.

“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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