My Hot Sorrel Dry Grain Gruel

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known in West Africa.</p><p id="a76d">In Nigeria, it’s referred to as Zobo drink, in Jamaica, and throughout the Caribbean Island, it’s known as Sorrel Drink. You can get the tea version in your grocery store, labeled hibiscus tea.</p><p id="f690">It’s a fairly nutritional drink, rich in Vitamin A&C, magnesium, calcium, and potassium. However, that’s not its selling point.</p><figure id="7f20"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*YQ1A1DN9Oszf0JLL"><figcaption>Sorrel Drink</figcaption></figure><p id="6b88">Now that we have familiarized ourselves with Sorrel drink, I shall move quickly to easy steps to make dry grains gruel.</p><p id="2935">It all depends on choice and individuals but for me, I use three combinations of grains to make grain gruel for babies and for the family consumption. I use Corn, millet, and guinea corn aka sorghum.</p><h2 id="583e">Steps in Processing Dry Grain Gruel</h2><ul><li>I pick the grains of the stones and chaff.</li><li>I follow the normal procedure of soaking the grains for 72 hours. I allow my maize to be soaked in the water for 48 hours before adding the Millet and Guinea corn.</li><li>Soak the grains in a bucket full of clean water and loosely covered. You must change and replace the water every 24 hours.</li></ul><figure id="87f2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*uDW2Cb9UkwHjGfGa"><figcaption>Soaked grains getting ready for grinding</figcaption></figure><ul><li>Wash the grains on the third day and grind.</li><li>Use Cheesecloth or sieve to sieve the chaff and allow the gruel to settle.</li><li>Sieve out the water again from the settled gruel.</li><li>Use a clean handkerchief to squeeze and dry the gruel further so that all the water will be drained out of it.</li></ul><figure id="6da0"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*AySOWUSkPezwYPGJ"><figcaption>Squeezed grain gruel</figcaption></figure><ul><li>Use a tray or spread in a clean and dry surface and allow it to dry either under the fan or with a heater.</li></ul><figure

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id="a0dc"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*Fm0wx9MZkLq_URDi"><figcaption><b>Preparing a Sorrel drink dry grain gruel (Image credit: Author)</b></figcaption></figure><h2 id="7122">How To Prepare Your Dry Grain Gruel Using Hot Sorrel</h2><ul><li>Pour a full glass cup of sorrel drink in a kettle.</li><li>Mix with two parts of clean water and allow to boil.</li><li>Dissolve your dry grain gruel on a plate with water.</li><li>Pour the boiling Sorrel drink until seemer. Or,</li><li>Dissolve the dry grain gruel with Sorrel drink</li><li>Boil clean water and make your pap.</li></ul><p id="a757">Note that the more the quantity of Sorrel drink added, the redder your pap. It is a choice. Add as you desire.</p><p id="7610"><b>*****</b></p><p id="e8a0"><b>You may read these also:</b></p><div id="e1f0" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/where-i-come-from-it-is-a-mens-world-it-s-men-first-643c16b0d0cd"> <div> <div> <h2>Where I Come From, It is a Men’s World. It’s Men First</h2> <div><h3>Mundane Mentality</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*Wq-6bN4bWCbxyJjISowkLg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="5ab8" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/last-month-i-began-a-corn-cobs-business-this-is-how-much-i-made-e853531b80ab"> <div> <div> <h2>Last Month, I Began a Corn Cobs Business. This is How Much I Made</h2> <div><h3>I made wealth from the Wastebin</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*x9lJ4ihb9U0PGeyB3fdB6w.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

I Just Learned a New Way to Give My “Dry Grain Gruel” a Natural Strawberry Color

I will teach you a new way to give your grain gruel a strawberry color without adding artificial additives.

Dry grain gruel is gradually taking the place of wet pap because mothers are tired of changing the water from the bucket of maize or corn gruel and replacing with the new one every morning. Apart from changing the water constantly, the dry form of grain gruel is the better option in the absence of a refrigerator.

In this piece, I will be writing on the most convenient ways to make a dry grain gruel and how to prepare it for consumption, for the family or for the baby using hot sorrel drink to give it a strawberry color.

I have told us the reason why people prefer having their grains gruel in a dry form. Now, the second question should be; why am I adding the pap or the gruel a hot sorrel drink to give it a strawberry color?

I started using sorrel juice or Sorrel drink for my grains gruel to lure my family to it. I noticed that kids most time reject this cereal drink. And when I don’t have other options in their feeding, I found a way to make them stop rejecting the food, and the only way is to add natural color to this natural meal to give it an appetizing, attractive presentation and, sweet taste.

Sorrel juice, popularly known as “Zobo” in my locale is dark red, a little sour, with a raspberry-like flavor; made from the petals of the sorrel plant (flor de Jamaica)” or hibiscus plant flower as popularly known in West Africa.

In Nigeria, it’s referred to as Zobo drink, in Jamaica, and throughout the Caribbean Island, it’s known as Sorrel Drink. You can get the tea version in your grocery store, labeled hibiscus tea.

It’s a fairly nutritional drink, rich in Vitamin A&C, magnesium, calcium, and potassium. However, that’s not its selling point.

Sorrel Drink

Now that we have familiarized ourselves with Sorrel drink, I shall move quickly to easy steps to make dry grains gruel.

It all depends on choice and individuals but for me, I use three combinations of grains to make grain gruel for babies and for the family consumption. I use Corn, millet, and guinea corn aka sorghum.

Steps in Processing Dry Grain Gruel

I pick the grains of the stones and chaff.

I follow the normal procedure of soaking the grains for 72 hours. I allow my maize to be soaked in the water for 48 hours before adding the Millet and Guinea corn.

Soak the grains in a bucket full of clean water and loosely covered. You must change and replace the water every 24 hours.

Soaked grains getting ready for grinding

Wash the grains on the third day and grind.

Use Cheesecloth or sieve to sieve the chaff and allow the gruel to settle.

Sieve out the water again from the settled gruel.

Use a clean handkerchief to squeeze and dry the gruel further so that all the water will be drained out of it.

Squeezed grain gruel

Use a tray or spread in a clean and dry surface and allow it to dry either under the fan or with a heater.

Preparing a Sorrel drink dry grain gruel (Image credit: Author)