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Old Fashioned Oatmeal

A simple oatmeal cooked with water and salt until tender.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a pot, combine oatmeal, water, and salt.

  2. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the oatmeal is tender, similar to Quaker Oats.

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
Provides the starch and fiber that thicken the water into a creamy porridge as it cooks.
Water
Hydrates the oat starch so it swells and softens during 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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