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Oat-meal Crisps

Oatmeal crisps are baked oatmeal cakes made with water and a touch of wheat flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,373 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Oat-meal Crisps

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the dough

  1. Mix oatmeal with boiling water to form a stiff dough.

  2. Knead the dough slightly.

  3. Add a little wheat flour to prevent crumbling.

Shape and bake

  1. Mold the dough and cut it into small, thin cakes.

  2. Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) for 20 to 30 minutes.

Store

  1. Store in a cool, dry place to retain flavor.

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. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Forms the dough structure and gives the crisps their main body and flavor.
Boiling water
Hydrates the oatmeal starch so it binds into a stiff, workable dough.
Wheat flour
Adds binding so the thin cakes hold together rather than crumbling.

The step that matters

Cutting the cakes thin and small. Thin, small pieces dry out evenly in the oven, which is what makes them crisp rather than soft or chewy. Uneven thickness leaves some pieces underbaked.

“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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