Indian Meal Gruel. ✠
- 2 quarts of boiling water.
- 1 cup of Indian meal, and
- 1 tablespoonful flour, wet up with cold water.
- Salt to taste—and, if you like, sugar and nutmeg.
Wet the meal and flour to a smooth paste, and stir into the water while it is actually boiling. Boil slowly one hour, stirring up well from the bottom. Season with salt to taste. Some sweeten it, but I like it better with a little pepper added to the salt.
If a cathartic is desired, omit the wheat flour altogether.
Oatmeal Gruel
Is made in the same way.
Milk and Rice Gruel.
- 1 quart boiling milk.
- 2 tablespoonfuls (heaping) of ground rice, wet with cold milk.
- 1 saltspoonful of salt.
Stir in the rice-paste and boil ten minutes, stirring all the while. Season with sugar and nutmeg, and eat warm with cream.
You may use Indian meal instead of rice-flour, which is an astringent. In this case, boil an hour.