Indian Meal Gruel
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Sift the Indian meal and add it to a quart of water.
Wash the meal by changing the water once or twice as it settles.
Cook and serve
Boil for 25 minutes to 1 hour, stirring constantly.
Strain the mixture and add salt 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
- Indian meal
- Cornmeal that thickens the water into a smooth, starchy gruel as it cooks.
The step that matters
Stirring constantly while boiling. Cornmeal settles and can scorch on the bottom of the pot, and constant stirring keeps the starch dispersed so the gruel cooks evenly and does not clump.
“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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