Oatmeal Mush
Ingredients
Directions
Combine oatmeal, water, and salt in a pot.
Cook in an oatmeal cooker or in a tin pail set in boiling water.
Stir from the bottom occasionally.
Cook for 1½ hours, but longer cooking improves the flavor.
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
- Provides the starch that thickens the water into a porridge as it cooks.
- Water
- Hydrates the oats so they soften and form the porridge's liquid base.
The step that matters
Stirring from the bottom. Oats are dense and settle, so they can scorch and stick to the bottom of the pot. Stirring from the bottom keeps them moving and evenly cooked.
“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.
More oatmeal porridge recipes
You might also like
Tomato Soup526 recipes
Brown Bread461 recipes
Mutton Broth292 recipes
Yorkshire Pudding264 recipesThe free Flavor Lab newsletter: one surprising pairing a week and the molecular reason it works, in 60 seconds. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
Prefer an account? Create a free account to save pairings and unlock the full chemistry.