Directions for the Finer Ground Cereals
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Bring 3 cups of salted water to a boil.
Sprinkle 1 cup of rolled oats into the boiling water, stirring constantly for 5 minutes.
Slow cook
Reduce heat and set on the back of the stove or in a double boiler.
Cook for 1 to 5 hours, stirring occasionally.
Overnight and finish
Cook for 1 hour in the evening.
Let it sit overnight in a double boiler.
Cook for another hour before breakfast.
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
- Rolled oats
- Provide starch that absorbs water and thickens into a creamy porridge as it cooks.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the oats and forms the liquid that becomes the body of the porridge.
The step that matters
Sprinkling the oats into the boiling water. Adding the oats gradually while stirring constantly keeps them from clumping. Oat starch thickens as it hydrates, so dumping them in at once creates lumps that are hard to smooth out.
“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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