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Water Oatmeal

A simple oatmeal prepared by boiling water, adding oatmeal, letting it sit, then straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Water Oatmeal

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil 2 quarts of water and let it cool.

  2. Add 1 cup of fine oatmeal to the cooled water.

Steep and strain

  1. Keep the mixture in a warm place (80°F) for 1½ hours.

  2. Strain the mixture and let it cool.

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

Fine oatmeal
Supplies the starch and flavour that the warm water draws out during steeping.

The step that matters

Keep the mixture warm for the full steeping time. Warmth speeds the release of soluble starch and flavour from the oatmeal into the water. A steady temperature over the whole 1½ hours lets this extraction happen evenly, so the strained liquid is consistent.

“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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