Water Gruel

Ingredients

• Two table-spoonfuls oatmeal
• three gills boiling water
• one gill cold water
• one half ounce sugar
• one half ounce butter
• one wine-glassful port wine

Method

1. 1

   Place the oatmeal in a large basin, pour over the cold water, and stir it well.

2. 2

   Allow the meal and water to soak for twenty minutes, then pour over the boiling water, and stir all well together.

3. 3

   This mixture must now be allowed to stand for three minutes, so that the meal may sink to the bottom.

4. 4

   Pour from this now very gently the liquid into a sauce-pan, taking care to leave the sediment in the basin.

5. 5

   Place the sauce-pan over the fire, and stir all till boiling; add the sugar and butter, and boil all slowly for ten minutes.

6. 6

   Add at the last minute before serving the port wine.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 182. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WATER GRUEL — LEMON PEEL TEA. 283 a fine piece of muslin into a well -heated basin, when it is ready. Water GrueL — Two table-spoonfuls oatmeal, three gills boiling water, one gill cold water, one half ounce sugar, one half ounce butter, one wine-glassful port wine

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