Rice Gruel

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons ground rice
• 2 cups milk
• ^ cup cold water
• ^ teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix rice and cold water; add scalded milk and cook in double boiler for two hours, stirring occasionally.

2. 2

   Strain, 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.

^ cup cold water ^ teaspoon salt Mix flour with cold water, add scalded milk and salt. Cook in double boiler thirty minutes, stirring often. 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, and serve. Oatmeal Gruel 2 tablespoons oatmeal I cup cold water 2 cups boiling water | teaspoon salt Mix oatmeal with cold water ; add salt and boiling water, and cook two hours, or better still over night, in 338 LOWNEY'S COOK BOOK double boiler. Strain and serve ; thin with hot water or milk if not of the desired consistency. Oatmeal Caudle Add one egg yolk and one tablespoon brandy or sherry to Oatmeal Gruel. Rice Gruel 2 tablespoons ground rice 2 cups milk \ cup cold water ^ teaspoon salt

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