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Sprouted Oats

Sprouted oats are soaked, germinated, and fed to laying hens and chicks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Oats and pepper work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 644 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Sprouted Oats

Ingredients

Directions

Soak and drain

  1. Cover the oats with water.

  2. Soak the oats for 5–6 hours in summer or 24 hours in winter.

  3. Drain the oats in a pail with a half-inch hole at the bottom.

Sprout

  1. Place the pail in a warm spot for 3–4 days until sprouts appear.

  2. Sprinkle the oats with water daily.

  3. Keep the oats covered with a blanket or sack.

  4. Once sprouted, spread the oats 3–4 inches thick in a box with drainage holes.

  5. Sprinkle the oats daily.

  6. Stir the oats daily until the sprouts are ½ to 1 inch long.

Feed

  1. Feed the sprouted oats to laying hens twice a day.

  2. Add 1 teaspoon each of salt and cayenne pepper to each pailful of oats for better results.

  3. When the sprouts are ½ inch long, feed them to chicks three times a day after they are a week old.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Oats + peppertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together644 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Oats
The grain that sprouts, providing the sprouted feed itself.
Water
Soaks and keeps the oats moist so the grain can germinate.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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