Oatmeal Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Mix the oatmeal with cold water in a basin.
Pour the mixture into a saucepan with boiling water.
Add salt and stir continuously.
Sprinkle in small quantities of oatmeal until it boils and reaches the desired consistency.
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
- Forms the body of the porridge, thickening as its starch swells and gelatinizes in hot water.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the oats and provides the liquid that the starch absorbs to set the porridge.
The step that matters
Adding the oatmeal in small quantities. Dumping oatmeal in all at once creates lumps, because outer grains hydrate and seal before the centre wets. Sprinkling it in slowly while stirring lets each portion disperse and thicken evenly.
“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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