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Employez Les Cereales

A simple oatmeal dish cooked in water and served with milk, syrup, or butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Employez Les Cereales

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Bring the water to a boil.

Cook and serve

  1. Slowly add the oatmeal to the boiling water.

  2. Cook for 1 hour or overnight in a double boiler or fireless cooker.

  3. Serve with milk, syrup, or butter.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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 with the water as it cooks, giving the porridge body.

The step that matters

Slowly add the oatmeal to the boiling water. Adding the oatmeal gradually and keeping the water moving helps the grains disperse separately, so they hydrate evenly instead of forming clumps.

“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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