Name: Cracker Gruel
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons cracker crumbs, rolled and sifted; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 cup hot milk

Cracker Gruel

Ingredients

3 tablespoons cracker crumbs, rolled and sifted
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup hot milk

Directions

Add the cracker crumbs to the hot milk in a double boiler and cook for 5 minutes.
Add the salt, then strain the mixture and serve.

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

Cracker crumbs: Thicken the hot milk as their starch swells, giving the gruel body.
Hot milk: Forms the liquid base that the crumbs soften and thicken into a gruel.

“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.