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Sprouted Oats

Sprouted oats soaked, drained, and allowed to germinate, then seasoned with salt and cayenne pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Oats and pepper work together. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 644 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Sprouted Oats

Ingredients

Directions

Soak and drain

  1. Cover the oats with water.

  2. Soak for 5–6 hours in summer or 24 hours in winter.

  3. Drain the oats in a pail with a half‑inch hole at the bottom.

Sprout

  1. Sprinkle the oats with water daily.

  2. Keep covered with a blanket or old sack.

  3. Place the pail in a warm spot for 3–4 days until the oats sprout and heat up.

  4. Once sprouted, spread the oats 3–4 inches thick in a box with half‑inch holes.

  5. Sprinkle the oats daily.

  6. Stir the oats daily until the sprouts are ½ to 1 inch long.

Season

  1. Mix 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper into each pailful of oats.

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 + peppertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together644 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Oats
Provide the grain that sprouts, supplying starch and sweetness as the sprouts develop.
Water
Hydrates the oats so the grain can soften and begin to sprout.

The step that matters

Keep the oats moist and turning during sprouting. Oats that dry out stop sprouting, and oats left unstirred can mat and sour. Daily watering and stirring keep moisture even so the sprouts develop evenly.

“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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