Arrowroot

Ingredients

• Put a pint of milk into a stew pan
• put a heaping teaspoonful of ground arrowroot
• salt to taste
• one egg, well beaten

Method

1. 1

   Let milk boil, mix arrowroot with cold milk, stir into stew-pan, simmer for two or three minutes, then sweeten.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dora's cook book (1888) by Dora E. Fairfield, page 84. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ARROWROOT. Put a pint of milk into a stew pan, let it boil, salt to taste, put a heaping teaspoonful of ground arrowroot into a cup, make it smooth with cold milk, stir it into the stew-pan, and let it simmer for two or three minutes; then turn into a bowl and sweeten. ‘This should be made only as much as is required at a time, as it will become thin as water if heated over. This is very nourishing and light, either for invalids or infants. RICE FLOUR GRUEL. One quart boiling milk, two heaping tablespoonfuls of ground rice, wet with cold milk, one saltspoontful of salt. Stir in the rice paste and boil ten minutes, stirring all the while, Serve with cream and sugar, 276 DORA’S COOK BOOK, ONION GRUEL. Slice a few onions and boil them in a pint of new milk, stir in a sprinkle of oatmeal and a very little salt, boil till the onions are tender, then drink rapidly and go to bed. This is excellent for a cold. ARROWROOT CUSTARD (SPLENDID). ~ Two cups boiling milk, three heaping teaspoonfuls arrowroot, wet up with a little cold milk, two tablespoon- fuls white sugar, beaten with the egg, one egg, well beaten

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