Plumb Gruel

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (7)
Instructions (9)
  1. Stir together water and oatmeal.
  2. Add mace and lemon-peel.
  3. Boil for five or six minutes, taking care it doesn't boil over.
  4. Strain off the mixture.
  5. Return the strained liquid to the sauce-pan.
  6. Add the washed and picked currants.
  7. Boil for about ten minutes.
  8. Add white wine and grated nutmeg.
  9. Sweeten to your palate.
Original Text
To make Plumb Gruel. TAKE two quarts of water, two large spoonfuls of oatmeal; stir it together, a blade or two of mace, a little piece of lemon-peel; boil it for five or six minutes (take care it don't boil over) then strain it off, and put it into the sauce-pan again, with half a pound of currants clean washed and picked. Let them boil about ten minutes, add a glass of white wine, a little grated nutmeg, and sweeten to your palate.
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