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Oat Flake

A simple porridge made by boiling oat flakes in water with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oat Flake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add boiling water to a pot.

  2. Stir in oat flake and salt.

  3. Boil in the upper kettle of a double boiler until thickened.

  4. Cook over steam for 40 minutes to 1 hour, or until ready to serve.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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

Oat flake
Starch from the oats thickens the water into a creamy porridge as it cooks.
Boiling water
Provides the liquid that the oats absorb and swell in to form the porridge.

“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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