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Oatmeal Porridge

A simple hot oatmeal porridge made by boiling water, adding oatmeal, salt, and simmering.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oatmeal Porridge

Ingredients

Directions

Make the porridge

  1. Bring 1 quart of water to a boil in a saucepan.

  2. Gradually sprinkle 4 oz. oatmeal into the boiling water while stirring.

  3. Stir until the mixture boils, then boil for 10 minutes.

  4. Add 1 heaped teaspoon of salt and boil for another 10 minutes.

  5. Adjust consistency by adding more or less oatmeal if desired.

Serve

  1. Serve with sweet milk.

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

Oatmeal
Forms the body of the porridge as its starch thickens in boiling water.
Water
Hydrates the oats so they soften and swell into a porridge.

The step that matters

Sprinkling the oatmeal into boiling water while stirring. Adding oats gradually while stirring keeps them from clumping into lumps. Stirring also distributes the starch so the porridge thickens evenly.

“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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