Grahah Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Dissolve the graham meal in cold water.
Add warm water and heat gradually for one hour.
Boil steadily for one hour, adding boiling water as needed to maintain 1 quart of gruel.
Strain the mixture, then salt and sweeten to taste.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Graham meal
- Forms the thickened body of the gruel as its starch gelatinises during long heating.
The step that matters
Boil steadily for one hour, adding boiling water as needed. Starch needs sustained heat to swell and thicken fully. Adding boiling rather than cold water keeps the temperature steady so the gruel does not stall or thin unevenly.
“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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