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Quaker Oats Mush

A simple oatmeal mush made by cooking Quaker oats in boiling salted water and served with cream or milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Oats and cream work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 634 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Quaker Oats Mush

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the porridge

  1. Slowly stir 1 part Quaker oats into 2 parts boiling salted water.

  2. Boil rapidly for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.

  3. Transfer to a double boiler and cook for 1 hour or more.

Serve

  1. Serve with cream or milk.

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. 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

Quaker oats
Provide the starch and fibre that thicken the water into a creamy porridge as they cook.
Salted water
Hydrates the oats and carries the salt that seasons the porridge as it absorbs.

The step that matters

Stirring the oats into boiling water. Adding oats slowly to boiling water and stirring keeps the grains separated, so they hydrate evenly instead of clumping into lumps. Constant stirring during the rapid boil also prevents the starch from settling and scorching on the base of the pan.

“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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