Name: Rolled Oats
Ingredients: 2 cups rolled oats; 1 quart water

Rolled Oats

Ingredients

2 cups rolled oats
1 quart water

Directions

Combine the rolled oats and water in a saucepan or double boiler.
Cook over medium heat until the oats are tender, stirring occasionally.
Serve warm.

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

Rolled oats: Provide the starch that thickens the water into a soft, porridge-like texture as they cook.
Water: Hydrates the oats so they soften and swell while cooking.

“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.