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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Oatmeal
- Its starch swells in hot water and thickens the liquid into a porridge.
The step that matters
Sprinkle in the oatmeal gradually. Adding oatmeal in small amounts lets each portion wet and swell evenly, which helps prevent lumps. Stirring keeps the starch from settling and scorching on the base of the pan.
“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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