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Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil the water in a pot.
Add salt to the boiling water.
Cook the oatmeal
Sprinkle in the oatmeal while stirring continuously.
Once it reaches boiling point, cover the pot and reduce heat to simmer for 1 hour, stirring frequently.
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 absorbs water and swells as it cooks, thickening the liquid into a porridge.
The step that matters
Sprinkling in the oatmeal while stirring continuously. Dry oats added to hot liquid can form lumps as their outer layer hydrates unevenly. Constant stirring disperses the oats so they hydrate evenly and the porridge cooks 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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