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Oatmeal Gruel

A simple hot porridge made by boiling oatmeal in water, seasoned with salt, and optionally sweetened with sugar, milk, or cream.

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

Oatmeal Gruel

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sprinkle the oatmeal into the boiling water.

  2. Boil for 40 minutes.

  3. Season with salt and strain.

  4. Serve hot, adding sugar, milk, or cream if desired.

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

Oatmeal
Thickens the water into a gruel as its starch gelatinises during the long boil.

“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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