Oat Flakes
Ingredients
Directions
Put a quart of boiling water into a double saucepan or porcelain-lined pan.
Add a saltspoonful of salt.
When the water is boiling, stir in gradually three ounces of flakes. Keep stirring to prevent burning.
Let it boil from fifteen to twenty minutes.
Serve with cream and sugar.
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. See the original page.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Oatmeal flakes
- Swell in boiling water to form the thick porridge body of the dish.
The step that matters
Stirring while the flakes go in. Adding the flakes gradually and stirring constantly keeps them dispersed, so they hydrate evenly and do not clump or stick and scorch on the bottom of the pan.
“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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