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Boiled Flour

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. Tea
  3. a pound of flour
  4. Milk
  5. Beef
  6. Biscuit
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Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Flour Source of phosphorus · Source of copper · Source of manganese · +1

    Source of phosphorus · 106 mg per 100 g, 15% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Phosphorus contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Phosphorus contributes to normal function of cell membranes.
    • Phosphorus contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.
    1 more authorised claims
    • Phosphorus contributes to the maintenance of normal teeth.

    Phosphorus is a mineral contained in each cell in our body. Most phosphorus is in the bones and teeth, and some is in your genes. NIH fact sheet

    Source of copper · 0.2 mg per 100 g, 17% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Copper contributes to maintenance of normal connective tissues.
    • Copper contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Copper contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    5 more authorised claims
    • Copper contributes to normal hair pigmentation.
    • Copper contributes to normal iron transport in the body.
    • Copper contributes to normal skin pigmentation.
    • Copper contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Copper contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Copper is a mineral that you need to stay healthy. Your body uses copper to carry out many important functions, including making energy, connective tissues, and blood vessels. NIH fact sheet

    Source of manganese · 0.6 mg per 100 g, 28% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Manganese contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Manganese contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.
    • Manganese contributes to the normal formation of connective tissue.
    1 more authorised claims
    • Manganese contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Manganese is a mineral that your body needs to stay healthy. Your body uses manganese to make energy and protect your cells from damage. NIH fact sheet

    Source of selenium · 10 µg per 100 g, 19% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Selenium contributes to normal spermatogenesis.
    • Selenium contributes to the maintenance of normal hair.
    • Selenium contributes to the maintenance of normal nails.
    3 more authorised claims
    • Selenium contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Selenium contributes to the normal thyroid function.
    • Selenium contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.

    Selenium is a nutrient that the body needs to stay healthy. Your thyroid gland needs selenium to produce hormones and function properly. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Flour, 00”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. This is used for infants’ food, also for thickening milk and other foods, as beef tea, &c., for invalids.
  2. It is very nourishing and digestible.
  3. Tie a pound of flour in a cloth tightly, and put it in a saucepan of boiling water, and keep it boiling for four hours.
  4. Then leave it until cold after taking it from the water, and remove the outer moist part of the ball of flour, and grate the rest ;
  5. put it in a bottle for use.
  6. There is difference of opinion as to the time required for the boiling ;
  7. some authorities give two hours only, and others six or more ;
  8. as detailed above, we have foimd it very satisfactory, though longer boiling could not hurt it.
  9. Being so thoroughly cooked, this requires but a few minutes’ boiling with milk, &c., for invalids.
  10. When for beef tea it is better to boil it with a small amount of water, and add the beef tea to it by degrees.
  11. Or a little of the tea may be used for the boiling ;
  12. do not bring the whole to a high temperature.
  13. For infants, the thickness of the food is determined by the age of the child ;
  14. the flour is to be mixed with a little of the milk, or milk and water, as the case may be, and the rest added, and the whole boiled.
  15. Another way is to mix the flour with cold liquid, and add the rest boiling, and then return to the fire to boil up.
  16. Biscuit powder has similar uses {see page 1012).
  17. Note.— White flour is often used, but decorticated, finely-ground whole meal is excellent thus prepared.
  18. Prepared barley is sometimes added in small proportions with considerable advantage.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Grater