Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Bring water or milk to a boil in an iron saucepan.
Gradually stir in the oatmeal while mixing continuously.
Boil for 10 minutes, then add salt to taste.
Continue boiling for another 10 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent burning.
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 and thickens the liquid into a porridge as it cooks.
- Water or milk
- Provides the liquid that the oat starch absorbs and swells in during cooking.
The step that matters
Gradually stir in the oatmeal. Adding oatmeal slowly while stirring keeps it from clumping, since outer grains hydrate before the centers. Continued stirring stops the starch from settling and scorching on the pan bottom.
“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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