Ohio Oatmeal
Ingredients
Directions
Bring 2 quarts of water to a boil in a large pot.
Add 1 cup of oatmeal that has been wet with cold water.
Boil for 1 hour, stirring often.
After an hour, add ½ teaspoon of salt and boil for an additional hour.
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
- Oatmeal
- Its starch swells and thickens the boiling water into a porridge as it cooks.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the oats and carries the heat that cooks them until tender.
The step that matters
Stirring the oatmeal during the first hour. Oats that settle on the bottom of the pot can scorch and stick while the starch thickens the liquid. Frequent stirring keeps the oats suspended and the heat even.
“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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