Rye Meal Mush
Ingredients
Directions
Bring water to a boil in a pot.
Add ¼ teaspoon salt to the boiling water.
Gradually stir in 1 cup of fresh-ground rye meal.
Let it boil for about 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
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
- Rye meal
- Starch from the rye forms the thick body of the mush as it cooks in water.
The step that matters
Gradually stir in the rye meal. Adding the meal slowly while stirring keeps it dispersed in the water, which prevents lumps from forming as the starch hydrates.
“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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