Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Mix the oatmeal with the cold water until smooth.
Cook
Pour the boiling water into the mixture in a saucepan.
Boil and stir for 40 minutes.
Serve
Serve hot in a soup plate and add cold milk to cool it down.
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
- Forms the body of the porridge as its starch thickens in the hot water.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the oats and cooks them into a thick, soft porridge.
The step that matters
Mix the oatmeal with the cold water until smooth. Starting the oatmeal in cold water lets the grains disperse evenly. Adding them directly to boiling water can clump them, leaving lumps that do not smooth out during cooking.
“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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