Oatmeal Mush
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Pour 1 quart of water into the inner pot of a double boiler.
Cook
When hot, stir in 1 cup of rolled oats and let it boil rapidly until thickened.
Set the inner pot in the outer pot of the double boiler with boiling water.
Cook for three hours or more, or overnight for breakfast.
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
- Rolled oats
- Starch that swells in hot water and thickens the porridge into a creamy texture.
- Water
- Hydrates the oats so they soften and gelatinize as they cook.
The step that matters
Boiling the oats rapidly until thickened. Oat starch needs sustained heat to gelatinize and thicken. Stirring as the mixture first heats helps prevent the oats from settling and scorching on the bottom of the pot.
“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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