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Indian Meal Gruel

A simple gruel made by stirring meal into boiling water, seasoned with salt and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Indian Meal Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slowly stir the meal into the boiling water.

  2. Add salt to taste.

  3. Let it simmer for one hour, or longer for better flavor.

  4. Add cream to taste before serving.

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

Granulated meal
Its starch thickens the boiling water into a soft, porridge-like gruel.

The step that matters

Stirring the meal into the boiling water. Adding the meal slowly and stirring keeps it from clumping into lumps. Cornmeal and similar grain starches hydrate unevenly when dumped in, so stirring as it goes gives a smooth, even thickness.

“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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