Flour Gruel

Ingredients

• Place a pint of flour in a cloth
• put it in a kettle of boiling water
• Add salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil the cloth for four or five hours.

2. 2

   Untie to find gluten on the outside and dry powder inside.

3. 3

   Grate the powder, wet in cold milk, and stir into boiling milk to thicken.

4. 4

   Serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 251. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

flour gruel. OATMEAL GRUEL, NO. I. When much oatmeal gruel is to be required, it will prove an economy of time to cook the oatmeal into mush, as previously described in this book, making sure that it is very thoroughly done. Place it in a bowl, and cover tightly. When gruel is needed, place some of the mush in a frying-pan, add milk sufficient to thin it to the de- sired consistency, and boil slowly for five minutes, stirring all the time. Add salt, and serve. OATMEAL GRUEL, NO. 2. One quart of boiling water. One table-spoonful of raw oatmeal. One-half tea-spoonful of salt. 58o THE PATTERN COOK-BOOK. Place the water in a frying-pan, add the oatmeal, and cook for two hours in a slow heat. Season with the salt, and strain or not, as the physician may direct. To serve, fill a cup two-thirds full with the hot gruel and fill the balance with cream or milk, stirring both well to- gether before taking to the patient. INDIAN MEAL GRUEL. One quart of boiling water. One-half tea-spoonful of salt. Two table-spoonfuls of meal. One table-spoonful of flour. Four table-spoonfuls of cold water. Place the meal and flour in the cold water, rub them smooth, and stir the paste into the boiling water. Stir well, and when the gruel boils, set it back where it will simmer gently for two hours. Add the salt, cook for half an hour longer, and serve with cream or milk, the same as in the preceding recipe. FLOUR GRUEL. This is particularly useful in the summer troubles of little children. Place a pint of flour in a cloth, tie it tightly, put it in a kettle of boiling water

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