Oat Meal Mush
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the porridge
Sift oat meal into boiling water.
Add salt and stir to combine.
Let it boil for 30 minutes.
Serve
Serve with milk or cream.
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
- Oat meal
- Its starch absorbs water and swells as it cooks, thickening the liquid into porridge.
The step that matters
Sifting the oat meal into boiling water. Dry oats added to hot water can clump as the outer starch gelatinises first and traps dry centres. Adding them gradually and stirring keeps the porridge smooth.
“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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