Oatmeal Mush
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Fill the outer boiler with boiling water.
Combine 1 cup of oatmeal with 3 cups of boiling water in the inner boiler.
Add ¼ teaspoon of salt to the inner boiler.
Cook
Sprinkle the oatmeal into the water and stir briefly.
Close the vessel and steam for 1.5 hours.
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
- Starch from the oats thickens the water into a creamy porridge as they hydrate and soften.
The step that matters
Keep the vessel closed while steaming. Steam trapped in the sealed vessel keeps the temperature steady so the oats hydrate and cook evenly. Lifting the lid lets steam escape and cools the porridge, which lengthens the cooking.
“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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