How To Make Water-Gruel

Take a pint of water and a large spoonful of oatmeal; put them into a saucepan and stir them together; let them boil up three or four times, and stir them as often : take care that it don't boil over. Then strain it through a sieve, and salt it to your own liking. Put in a lump of butter, and when it is melted mix them together with a spoon. Some like a little pepper.

How To Make Barley-Water

Take a quarter of a pound of pearl- barley, and put it into two quarts of water; boil them together to the consumption of one half, taking off the scum, and then strain it off; put in two spoonfuls of wine and a little sugar; drink it luke-warm.

How To Make Plum-Gruel

Take two large spoonfuls of oatmeal, and stir it in two quarts of water; then put in a blade or two of mace, and a bit of lemon-peel : boil these together in a sauce-pan for five or six minutes, and strain the liquor : then return it into the sauce-pan, and put in half a pound of currants, clean pickt and washed; let them boil about ten minutes, and then add a glass of white wine, a little grated nutmeg, and sugar enough to sweeten it.

How To Make Plum-Porridge

Take half a pound of pearl barley, a quarter of a pound of raisins well cleaned, a quarter of a pound of currants, clean pick'd and wash'd; put them into a gallon of water, with two or three blades of mace, and boil till rather more than half is consumed : then add half a pint of white wine, and as much sugar as will make it agreeable.