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Oat Meal Water

A cold beverage made by soaking oatmeal in ice water and boiling oatmeal in water until creamy, then mixing with ice water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oat Meal Water

Ingredients

Directions

Soak the oatmeal

  1. Put 1 cup of uncooked oatmeal in a pitcher of ice water.

  2. Stir several times and let it settle.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil ½ cup of oatmeal in 2 quarts of water for several hours until creamy and smooth.

  2. When cold, add a spoonful of the oatmeal mixture to a glass of ice water.

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
Starch from the oats thickens the water into a creamy, smooth drink.

The step that matters

Boil until creamy and smooth. Oat starch and fibre need sustained heat over a long period to swell and break down. If the boil is too short, the drink stays gritty 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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