How to Make Gruel

The modern cook · Charles Elmé Francatelli · 1846
Source
The modern cook
Time
Cook: 10 min Total: 10 min
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (7)
Instructions (5)
  1. Mix one tablespoonful of Robinson’s Patent Groats with a wine-glassful of cold water.
  2. Pour this mixture into a stewpan containing nearly a pint of boiling water.
  3. Stir the gruel on the fire while it boils for ten minutes.
  4. Pour the gruel into a basin.
  5. Add a small pat of butter, and a pinch of salt, or if more agreeable, some sugar, and a small quantity of spirits may be added instead of the butter and salt.
Original Text
HOW TO MAKE GRUEL. TAKE of Robinson’s Patent Groats one table-spoonful mixed with a wine-glassful of cold water, pour this into a stewpan containing nearly a pint of boiling water, stir the gruel on the fire while it boils for ten minutes; pour it into a basin, add a small pat of butter, and a pinch of salt, or if more agreeable, some sugar, and a small quantity of spirits may be added instead of the butter and salt. Note.—When gruel is made for an invalid, and if the constitution be delicate, the butter must be omitted.
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