Oatmeal Gruel

Ingredients

• a quart of water
• a table-spoonful of oatmeal
• salt, pepper, and butter, or sugar and nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Set a quart of water on the fire, and when quite hot, but not boiling, pour it on a table-spoonful of oatmeal, previously mixed with cold water, stirring it well.

2. 2

   Take out the spoon, and leave it to settle about two minutes; then pour it carefully into the pan, leaving the coarse part of the meal at the bottom of the basin.

3. 3

   Set it on the fire, stirring it till it boils; when boiled five or six minutes, skim it, and add either salt, pepper, and butter, or sugar and nutmeg.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 151. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

oatmeal gruel, strained, add two table-spoon- fuls of currants, and after boiling a few minutes, add sugar and nutmeg. No. 738. — Farina Gruel, Set on the fire a pint of water ; moisten a table-spoonful of farina with two table-spoonfuls of water ; pour on the water gradually when boiling, stirring it well ; return it into the pan, and boil eight or ten minutes, and add sugar and nutmeg, or raspberry vinegar. No. 739.— Groat Gruel. Pick the groats very clean, and steep them in water several hours ; then boil them in spring water till quite tender and thick, and add boiling water sufficient to reduce the whole to the consistency of gruel, also currants, sugar, and grated nutmeg. No. 740. — Oatmeal Gruel. Set a quart of water on the fire, and when quite hot, but not boiling, pour it on a table-spoonful of oatmeal, previously mixed with cold water, stirring it well ; take out the spoon, and leave it to settle about two minutes ; then pour it carefully into the pan, leaving the coarse part of the meal at the bottom of the basin ; set it on the fire, stirring it till it boils ; when boiled five or six minutes, skim it, and add either salt, pepper, and butter, or sugar and nutmeg

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