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Indian Meal Gruel

From Six little cooks, 1910

If too thick, it can be thinned with cream or boiling water.

Presented as published in 1910. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Six little cooks (1910) by Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

INDIAN MEAL GRUEL. Mix two tablespoonfuls white Indian meal into a thin paste with cold water; stir this into a quart of boiling water, in which has been dissolved one teaspoonful salt; boil it four hours, stir a teaspoonful wheat flour

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