Oatmeal Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the porridge
In a double boiler, combine boiling water and salt.
Add oatmeal to the inner kettle.
Cover the inner kettle and let it cook for one hour without stirring.
Serve
Serve hot with milk or cream.
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 thickens the water into a porridge as it cooks.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the oats so they soften and swell into a creamy texture.
The step that matters
Cook without stirring. Stirring breaks up the oat grains and releases starch, which can make the porridge gluey. Leaving it covered in the double boiler lets the oats cook gently and 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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