Cracker Gruel

Ingredients

• Four table-spoonfuls of powdered cracker
• a scant half-pint of boiling water
• half a pint of milk
• half a teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Pour the boiling water on the crackers.

2. 2

   Add the milk and salt, and stir the mixture until it boils up once.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 456. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cracker Gruel. Four table-spoonfuls of powdered cracker, a scant half- pint of boiling water, half a pint of milk, and half a tea- spoonful of salt are used to make this gruel. Pour the boiling water on the crackers. Add the milk and salt, and stir the mixture until it boils up once. * Graham Gruel. Put a pint of boiling water into a saucepan, and place on the fire. Mix four table-spoonfuls of cold water with one of graham meal, and stir into the boiling water. Cook for half an hour. When the mixture has been simmering for twenty minutes, add a scant half-teaspoon- ful of salt. Pour a gill of this gruel into a cup, and add half a gill of cream or milk. Serve hot. * Indian Meal Gruel. Put one quart of boiling water into a stew-pan, and place on the fire. Put into a bowl two table-spoonfuls of Indian meal and one of flour. Add a gill of cold water, and mix well. Stir this into the boiling water. Stir the mixture well, and when it boils, set the stew- pan back where the gruel will simmer for two hours. Add half a teaspoonful of salt

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