Oatmeal Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
In a basin, mix the oatmeal with cold water.
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
- Its starch thickens the porridge as the grains hydrate and gelatinize when heated.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the oat starch so it swells and thickens into a creamy porridge.
The step that matters
Sprinkling in the oatmeal while stirring. Adding oatmeal in small amounts while stirring lets each portion hydrate separately before the starch thickens. Dumping it in at once forms lumps that stay dry in the centre.
“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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