5 cups wheat
2¹⁄₂ qts. cold water
2¹⁄₂ tablespoons salt
5 qts. boiling water
Soak the cracked wheat in the cold water for nine hours or more. Add it
to the boiling water and salt, let it boil for ten minutes and put it
into a cooker for at least nine hours; reheat it to the boiling point
and cook it again for nine hours or more.
Serves forty or fifty persons.