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Oatmeal Mush Fried in Slices

Fried slices of oatmeal cooked from a prepared mush, served with peaches, cream, blackberries, bread, rolls, butter, and coffee.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Oatmeal Mush Fried in Slices

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare oatmeal according to package instructions.

  2. Once cooked, pour oatmeal into a greased dish and let it cool.

  3. Cut the cooled oatmeal into slices.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat a skillet over medium heat and fry the oatmeal slices until golden brown on both sides.

  2. Serve with peaches and cream or blackberries, alongside brown bread, rolls, butter, and coffee.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Peach + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Peach + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Cream + coffeetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Cooks into a firm mass when chilled, so it can be sliced and then fried.
Butter
Adds fat for frying and promotes browning on the oatmeal slices.

The step that matters

Frying the cooled slices. The oatmeal must be fully cooled and firm before slicing, or the slices will break apart. Medium heat lets the surface brown to golden without burning before the inside warms through.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, bread, butter, coffee):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits about as well
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, bread, butter, coffee. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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