Oatmeal Gruel Recipe 1 ingredients

• 1/3 cup rolled oats
• 1 pint water
• 1 pint or more hot milk
• 1¼ teaspoons salt

To prepare this Oatmeal Gruel Recipe 1, first add the salt to the water, and bring to a boil in the inner cup of a double boiler. Stir in the rolled oats. Boil over the fire two or three minutes, then set the inner cup in the outer cup of the double boiler which contains boiling water, and continue the cooking for three hours or longer. Then rub the oatmeal through a strainer. Add hot milk to make of the proper consistency for gruel.

Barley gruel, cornmeal gruel, or rice gruel may be made by the same recipe, using one-third cup pearl barley, one-fourth cup cornmeal, or one-fourth cup rice, instead of the rolled oats. And in making cornmeal or rice gruel one hour's cooking of the cereal is sufficient. It may be necessary to cook the barley four or five hours.

It may sometimes be desirable to make the gruel entirely of water.