Flour Ball for Flour Gruel

Ingredients

• two cups flour
• adding water to form a stiff dough
• two cups scalded milk
• add salt

Method

1. 1

   Knead flour into a ball, adding water to form a stiff dough.

2. 2

   Tie in a linen cloth and boil in deep saucepan for ten to twelve hours, keeping covered with boiling water.

3. 3

   Dry in cloth, remove cloth, and dry ball in oven.

4. 4

   Scrape two tablespoons from the ball; add cold water and scalded milk; cook in double boiler for ten minutes, add salt, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 131. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Flour Ball for Flour Gruel Knead two cups flour into a ball, adding water to form a stiff dough. Tie ball in a linen cloth and boil in deep saucepan ten to twelve hours, keeping the cloth covered with boiling water all of the time. Dry in cloth, remove cloth, and dry ball in oven. This will keep for years. Scrape two tablespoons from the ball ; add one fourth cup cold water and two cups scalded milk ; cook in double boiler ten minutes, add salt

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