Recipes > Rice, Cereals, Grains > Arrowroot Milk Porridge

Arrowroot Milk Porridge

Ingredients

• 1 large cupful of fresh milk, new if you can get it
• 1 cupful of boiling water
• 1 teaspoonful of arrowroot, wet to a paste with cold water
• 2 teaspoonfuls of white sugar
• pinch of salt

Instructions

Put the sugar into the milk, the salt into the boiling water, which should be poured into a farina kettle. Add the wet arrowroot and boil, stirring constantly until it is clear; put in the milk and cook ten minutes, stirring often. Give while warm, adding hot milk should it be thicker than gruel.

Print recipe/article only

Source

The White House Cookbook (1887).