Oat Groats
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the oat groats in cold water.
Put the groats into a tin saucepan with cold water and salt.
Cook
Cover the saucepan and place it in another pan with boiling water.
Do not stir or add more water.
Boil for 45 minutes.
Rest and serve
Remove from heat and let sit until the groats thicken like mush.
Serve with powdered sugar and sweet cream or rich milk.
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
- Whole grains that soften and thicken into a porridge as their starch absorbs water and gelatinizes.
The step that matters
Keep the lid on and do not stir. The covered pan of boiling water gives gentle, indirect heat. Lifting the lid or stirring lets heat and steam escape and disturbs the grains, so they cook unevenly and the texture turns out inconsistent.
“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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