Cereals
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare and boil
Bring the water in the outer pail to a boil.
In the smaller pail, add the required water, let it boil, then add the oatmeal and salt.
Boil for 10 minutes.
Stand overnight and serve
Place the smaller pail inside the larger one, pack it in the cooker, and let it stand overnight.
In the morning, reheat before serving.
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 porridge as it absorbs water and cooks.
- Water
- Hydrates the oats so they soften and cook into a spoonable porridge.
The step that matters
Boil for 10 minutes. Oat starch needs sustained boiling in water to swell and gelatinize. Too short a boil leaves the oats firm, chalky, and under-thickened.
“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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