Oatmeal Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Bring a pot of water to a boil.
Slowly sprinkle in the oatmeal while stirring continuously.
Cook
Add the salt and transfer to a vessel of boiling water.
Cook gently for 1 hour without stirring after the first 5 minutes.
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
- Its starch swells and gelatinises in hot water, thickening the liquid into porridge.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the oats so their starch can swell and soften into a creamy texture.
The step that matters
Sprinkling in the oatmeal slowly while stirring. Dry oat starch clumps when it hits hot water all at once, leaving dry lumps. Adding it gradually and stirring disperses each particle so it hydrates evenly and the porridge turns smooth.
“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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