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Graham Pudding

A thickened pudding made from graham flour, water, and salt, served cold with sugar, syrup, or cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Graham Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Boil the water in a pot.

  2. Add salt to the boiling water.

  3. Slowly stir in graham flour until thick.

  4. Reduce heat and let it simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent burning.

Serve

  1. Serve nearly cold with sugar, syrup, or cream.

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

Graham flour
Thickens the boiling water into a porridge-like pudding as its starch gelatinizes.
Water
Forms the liquid base that the flour thickens into a pudding.

The step that matters

Stirring in the graham flour. Adding flour slowly while stirring keeps it from clumping into lumps. Stirring during the simmer also prevents the bottom from scorching, since the thick mixture sticks and burns easily.

“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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