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Rolled Oat Mush

A simple dish of rolled oats cooked in boiling water, served with sugar and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Rolled Oat Mush

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the oats

  1. In a pot, bring 2 parts of water to a boil and add salt to taste.

  2. Slowly stir in 1 part of Albers Rolled Oats.

  3. Boil for 10 to 20 minutes, then allow to simmer, stirring occasionally.

Serve

  1. Serve with sugar and cream.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Oats + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,548 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Oats + creamtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together634 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Rolled oats
Their starch swells in the hot water and thickens it into a creamy porridge.
Boiling water
Hydrates the oats so they soften and cook through.

The step that matters

Slowly stir in the oats. Oats added to hot water can clump as their outer starch gels on contact. Adding them slowly while stirring spreads them evenly and keeps the porridge 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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