Cracked Wheat

Ingredients

• two cups best white winter wheat
• two quarts salted water
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil two cups of best white winter wheat in two quarts of salted water for two or three hours in a custard-kettle, or soak overnight and boil for at least three-fourths of an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CrackeD WHEAT. Oe fwo quatis salted water to two cups best white winter wheat; i “boil two or three hours in a custard-kettle: Or, soak over night and. boil at least three-fourths of an hour: Or, put boiling water in a pan or small tin bucket, set on stove, stir in wheat, set in steamer and “steam four hours: Or, makea strong sack of thick muslin or drilling, “moisten wheat with cold water, add a little salt, place in sack, leav- ing half the space for wheat to swellin. Fit a round sheet of tin, perforated with holes half an inch in diameter, to the inside of ordinary kettle, so that it will rest two or three inches from the — bottom; lay sack on the tin, put in water enough to reach tin, and boil from three to four hours, supplying water as it evaporates. Serve with butter and syrup, or creamand sugar. When cold, slice and fry; or warm with a little milk and salt in a pan greased with a little butter; or make in griddle-cakes Aaa a batter of eggs, wnseree and a little flour, and pinch of salt. Foxe Warre Hominy or Gris. _ Take two cups to two quarts salted water

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