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Oat Meal

A simple oat meal cooked with water in a double boiler.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Oat Meal

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix 1 pint of oat meal with 1 pint of cold water.

  2. Add 1 quart of cold water.

  3. Cook immediately in a double boiler until done.

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

Oat meal
Forms the body of the porridge, thickening as its starches absorb water and soften during 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.

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