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Oatmeal Gruel No. 1

Serves 4
📖 From Church Cookbook (Baltimore, 1908) (1908)

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Ingredients

  • • None i cup rolled oats i teaspoonful salt
  • • None 1 cup boiling water 1 cup milk
  • • None Prepare as for mush; cook in a sauce pan 30 minutes, stirring
  • • None all the time, or in a double boiler 1 to 2 hours; strain the gruel,

Instructions

Step 1. add the milk, and heat just to the boiling point. Serve hot, with

Step 2. 1 tablespoonful sugar, and a sprinkle of nutmeg, if desired.

Step 3. Cold oatmeal mush may be used to make gruel by adding more

Step 4. water and reheating. It may be served strained or unstrained.