Gruel

7 ingredients
5 steps

Ingredients

  • EGG GRUEL
  • 1 pint new [whole] milk
  • 4 eggs
  • Sugar
  • Nutmeg, grated
  • From The American Frugal Housewife by Mrs. Lydia Child, 1833
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Directions

  1. 1
    Boil a pint of new milk;
  2. 2
    Beat four new-laid eggs to a light froth, and pour in while the milk boils.Stir them together thoroughly, but do not let them boil;
  3. 3
    Sweeten it with the best of loaf sugar, and grate in a whole nutmeg.
  4. 4
    Add a little salt if you like it.
  5. 5
    Drink half of it while it is warm, and the other half in two hours.

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