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Boiled Wheat

Boiled wheat is prepared by grinding wheat berries, stirring into salted boiling water, and boiling for at least one hour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Boiled Wheat

Oven, in the book's wordsA very hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind the wheat berries in a coffee grinder.

  2. Stir the ground wheat into the boiling salted water.

  3. Boil for one hour or longer.

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

Wheat berries
Form the main body of the dish, becoming tender and starchy as they cook.

“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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