Name: Oatmeal Porridge
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons oatmeal; 1 pint boiling water; ¼ teaspoon salt

Oatmeal Porridge

Ingredients

3 tablespoons oatmeal
1 pint boiling water
¼ teaspoon salt

Directions

Combine oatmeal, boiling water, and salt in a double boiler.
Cook for 2 hours.
Serve hot or cold in mold shapes.

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: Provides the starch and body that thicken the porridge as it cooks.
Boiling water: Hydrates the oats so they soften and swell into a 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.