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French Milk Porridge

A simple oatmeal porridge cooked with water and milk, served with toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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French Milk Porridge

Ingredients

Directions

Soak the oatmeal

  1. Combine oatmeal and 2 cups of water.

  2. Let it sit to clear.

  3. Pour off the water.

  4. Add more water to the oatmeal.

  5. Stir well.

  6. Let it sit overnight.

  7. Strain the mixture through a fine sieve.

Make the porridge

  1. Boil the strained water.

  2. Add 1 cup of milk while boiling.

  3. Serve with toast.

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 that thickens the porridge as it cooks.
Milk
Adds richness and a creamy texture to the finished 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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