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Thickened Milk

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United States

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

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. one tablespoonful of butter
  2. four tablespoonfuls of prepared flour
  3. Cream
  4. one teaspoonful of salt
  5. Water
  6. One quart of boiling milk
  7. Sugar
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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. One quart of boiling milk ;
  2. four tablespoonfuls of prepared flour ;
  3. one tablespoonful of butter ;
  4. one teaspoonful of salt.
  5. Sift tbe salt into tbe flour, wet this to a soft dough with cold water, and stir it into the hot milk.
  6. Cook, stirring well, for ten minutes, put in the butter, cook five minutes longer, and pour into a deep dish.
  7. It should be neither gruel nor paste, but something between the two.
  8. Eat with sugar and cream.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Baking dish
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve