Name: Oatmeal Mush Improved
Ingredients: oatmeal; water

Oatmeal Mush Improved

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

oatmeal
water

Directions

In a farina kettle, cook oatmeal in boiling water.
If unavailable, improvise by placing a stone jar or tin pail with oatmeal into a kettle of water.
Use sticks to elevate the jar above the kettle's bottom.

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.