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Germea

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. one cup of germea
  2. Must
  3. one quart of water
  4. Salt

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. Bring to briskly boiling point one quart of water and add one level teaspoon of salt.
  2. Pour slowly into water one cup of germea.
  3. Stir thoroughly while it cooks from three to five minutes.
  4. Serve with cream and sugar.
  5. Wheaten "foods" are difficult to prepare free from lumps;
  6. to avoid these remember the following rules: Water must be at a bubbling, frothing heat.
  7. "Food must be added to water in very small quantities, and each addition must be thoroughly absorbed before adding more of the 'food'."

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon