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Definition of Gruels
1. gruel [v] - See also: gruel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gruels
Literary usage of Gruels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diet in health and disease by Julius Friedenwald (1913)
"CEREAL AND CEREAL gruels. •Either the grain itself or the specially prepared
flour may be used. When the grains are used they should be spread on a clean ..."
2. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking for the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"The largest ingredient of grains is starch, which is not easily digested unless
well cooked; therefore the time for boiling gruels should be conscientiously ..."
3. The Home Cook Book: A Collection of Practical Receipts by Expert Cooks (1905)
"... and other flours are used for gruels—nourishing, healing food for stomachs
temporarily disabled and unable to digest anything more substantial. ..."
4. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"... gruels as Infant Food.—Jacobi was the first in this country to advocate the
addition of a cereal decoction to milk in dilutions to aid the digestion of ..."
5. Diseases of infants and children by Henry Dwight Chapin, Godfrey Roger Pisek (1911)
"... gruels are being employed try plain gruels. Pasteurize. In any event change
the form of the carbohydrates. Food for Infants Previously Badly Fed. ..."
6. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking: For the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"gruels gruels are cooked mixtures of grain or flour, with water, or with water
and milk. They are best made with milk as a part of the liquid, but care must ..."
7. Food and cookery for the sick and convalescent by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1912)
"In preparing gruels the rules for the cooking of all starchy foods should be ...
Most patients object to sweetened gruels, therefore avoid the use of sugar ..."
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