Chocolate Custard.—Add one square of grated chocolate to the milk.
Caramel Custard.—Melt the dry sugar until golden brown, add the hot milk, and when dissolved proceed as before. Bake.
GRUELS.—Gruels are a mixture of grain or flour with either milk or water. They require long cooking and may be flavored with sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon, or almond.
Take the meal or flour (oatmeal, two tablespoons, or cornmeal, one tablespoon, or arrowroot, one and a half tablespoons). Sift it slowly into one and a half cups boiling water, simmer for an hour or two. Strain off the liquid; add to it one teaspoon of sugar, season with salt, and add one cup of warm milk.
Water Gruel.—If water gruel is desired, let the last cup of liquid added be water instead of milk.
Cream Gruel.—A cream gruel may be made by using rich cream instead of milk or water.
Barley Gruel.—Barley gruel (usually a water gruel) is prepared as follows: Moisten four tablespoons of barley flour in a little cold water and add it slowly to the boiling water. Stir and boil for twenty minutes.