Oat Meal
Ingredients
Directions
Moisten the oat meal in cold water.
Cook it in a double boiler with boiling water for 1 hour, using 4 times as much water as meal.
After 1 hour, add salt and cook for another hour, adding more water if needed.
Serve with milk and sugar, or let it cool, slice, and fry.
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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What each ingredient does
- Oat meal
- Forms the body of the porridge as its starch thickens during long gentle cooking.
- Cold water
- Hydrates the oat meal so it cooks evenly and absorbs liquid during the long simmer.
The step that matters
Cooking in the double boiler with boiling water. Gentle indirect heat from a double boiler keeps the porridge from scorching on the bottom. Adding more water when it thickens keeps the texture loose and the starch fully 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.
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