Oat Meal Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Carefully pick through the oat groats to remove all hulls.
Wash the groats in cold water.
In a tin saucepan, combine the groats, 2 cups of cold water, and ½ teaspoon of salt.
Cook
Cover the saucepan and place it in a larger saucepan filled with boiling water.
Boil for one hour, ensuring the water in the larger pan remains boiling until the porridge is done.
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
What each ingredient does
- Oat groats
- Provide the grain itself, whose starch swells and thickens into the porridge as it cooks in water.
The step that matters
Keep the outer pan boiling. The water bath holds the inner pan at a steady, gentle heat. If the outer water stops boiling, cooking slows and the porridge may be undercooked and thin.
“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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