Breakfast
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare 1 pint of oatmeal by cooking it in water until thickened.
Serve with 6 oz. of bread.
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
- Oatmeal
- Thickens into a creamy, porridge-like base as it absorbs water and cooks.
“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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