Name: Steamed Oatmeal
Ingredients: 1 cup oatmeal; 4 cups cold water; 1 teaspoon salt

Steamed Oatmeal

Ingredients

1 cup oatmeal
4 cups cold water
1 teaspoon salt

Directions

Combine oatmeal, cold water, and salt in a steamer.
Place the steamer over a kettle of cold water.
Gradually heat and steam for 1.5 hours after it begins to cook.

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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What each ingredient does

Oatmeal: Forms the main body of the porridge as its starches swell and soften with steam.
Cold water: Hydrates the oats and provides the moisture that turns them into a soft porridge.

“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.