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To Cook Cracked Wheat

A simple boiled cracked wheat dish made with water and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Cook Cracked Wheat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stir the cracked wheat into the boiling water in a three-quart bucket.

  2. Place the bucket in a pot of water and boil for two hours.

  3. Add the salt and stir well.

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

Cracked wheat
Forms the bulk of the dish, absorbing water as it cooks until the grains soften.

“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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