GROUT GRUEL

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (7)

half a pint of grouts
three pints of water or more, as you would have your gruel for thickness ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
a blade or two of mace ↝ Spices, mace, ground [Spices and Herbs]
white wine ↝ Wine, white [Wine]
sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
a quarter of a pound of currants washed and picked ↝ Currants, european black, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]
a toast of bread round it, cut in long narrow pieces ↝ Bread, vegetable [Yeast breads]

Instructions (5)

Boil half a pint of grouts in three pints of water or more, as you would have your gruel for thickness; with a blade or two of mace in it.
When your grouts are soft, put in it white wine and sugar to your taste.
Then take it off the fire.
Put to it a quarter of a pound of currants washed and picked.
Put it in a China bowl, with a toast of bread round it, cut in long narrow pieces.

Original Text

To make GROUT GRUEL.
BOIL half a pint of grouts in three pints of
water or more, as you would have your gruel for
thickness; with a blade or two of mace in it;
when your grouts are soft, put in it white wine
and sugar to your taste, then take it off the fire,
put to it a quarter of a pound of currants washed
and picked, put it in a China bowl, with a toast
of bread round it, cut in long narrow pieces.

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