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Watee Oatmeal

A simple oatmeal dish made by soaking fine oatmeal in water, then cooling and straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Watee Oatmeal

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 2 quarts of water and let it cool.

  2. Add 1 cup of fine oatmeal to the cooled water.

  3. Keep the mixture in a warm place at 80°F (27°C) for 1 hour.

  4. Strain the mixture and cool before serving.

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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What each ingredient does

Fine oatmeal
Provides the starch and fine particles that give the liquid body and a mild grain flavor.

“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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