Franck Instant Gris Wheat Grits, Croatian 400g (14.1oz)

Franck Instant Gris is a 400g Croatian pre-cooked wheat semolina — a fine-grain instant semolina that Franck, the Zagreb-based food company, produces as the quick-cooking version of the griz porridge that Croatian and former Yugoslav households have fed to children for breakfast and served as a light dessert for generations. Franck is a Zagreb food company producing the coffee, cocoa, and grain-based instant foods that the Croatian household pantry has relied on — the Instant Gris in particular is the brand's quick-cook semolina format, the instant version of the griz pudding that every Croatian and Yugoslav grandmother prepared slowly on the stovetop and that Franck modernised for the households that want the same result in five minutes. Griz porridge is embedded in Yugoslav and Croatian family food culture: the smooth, mild semolina that parents cooked for children as the first solid food, the warm breakfast on cold school mornings, the light dessert topped with jam or fruit compote that showed up at the end of simple family meals — the food that the entire former Yugoslav diaspora associates with the comfort of early childhood, cooked by grandmothers in every household from Ljubljana to Skopje. Whisk into boiling salted water or milk for the classic soft-set griz, serve with butter and jam for the Croatian breakfast version, top with fruit compote or vanilla sugar for the dessert version, or use as the quick-cook semolina base for any recipe that calls for properly cooked wheat semolina.