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Cold Oatmeal Molded and Garnished with Sliced Bananas

A chilled oatmeal mixture molded and topped with sliced bananas.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Oats and banana work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 288 recipes. Both carry hexyl acetate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cold Oatmeal Molded and Garnished with Sliced Bananas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a small bowl, combine the oats and cold water.

  2. Rub the oatmeal between your thumb and fingers for a few minutes.

Set and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a mold and refrigerate until set.

  2. Once set, unmold the oatmeal and garnish with sliced bananas.

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.

Explore the science

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 + bananatop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together288 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Oats
Provide the bulk and starch that thicken the mixture and let it hold its shape when chilled.

The step that matters

Rubbing the oatmeal. Rubbing the oats between your fingers breaks open some of their starch-filled particles. The released starch thickens the mixture as it chills, so the cook should rub long enough for the mixture to become noticeably thicker before molding.

“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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