Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Make the porridge
Mix the oatmeal with a small cup of cold water until smooth.
Pour the boiling water into the oatmeal mixture in a saucepan.
Boil and stir for 40 minutes.
Serve
Serve hot in a soup plate.
Add cold milk to cool it to a proper temperature.
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 thick body of the porridge as its starch swells and gelatinizes in hot water.
- Cold milk
- Cools the hot porridge to an eating temperature and adds creaminess.
The step that matters
Mixing the oatmeal with cold water before adding boiling water. Starch granules clump into lumps when hot water hits dry oatmeal directly. Mixing with cold water first lets the grains separate and hydrate evenly, giving a smooth porridge.
“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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