Corn Meal Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wet the cornmeal in cold water.
Stir the wet cornmeal into the boiling water.
Cook and season
Simmer for one hour.
Add salt and sugar 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.
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What each ingredient does
- Cornmeal
- Its starch swells and thickens the liquid as it simmers, forming the gruel's body.
The step that matters
Stirring the wet cornmeal into the boiling water. Cornmeal dropped in dry or added unevenly clumps as its starch hits hot liquid. Wetting it first spreads the grains so they disperse and thicken smoothly.
“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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