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A simple oat meal porridge boiled with water, salt, and optional milk, butter, cream, or sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Oat Meal Porribgb

Ingredients

Directions

Make the porridge

  1. Boil 2 quarts of water in a saucepan and season with coarse sea salt.

  2. Slowly add 1 pound of oat meal while stirring with a wooden spoon.

  3. Let it boil slowly for a few minutes. Reduce heat.

  4. Let it simmer for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally from the bottom.

Finish and serve

  1. Add a little milk and butter if desired.

  2. Serve with cream, sugar, and butter.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Oat meal
Swells as it cooks, thickening the water into a creamy, porridge-like texture.
Water
Cooks the oats and carries them into a soft, spoonable mass.
Milk
Adds richness and a softer, creamier body to the finished porridge.
Butter
Adds fat for a rounder, silkier mouthfeel and rich flavor.

The step that matters

Slowly add the oat meal while stirring. Oats dropped into boiling water in one go clump, and the outer layer hydrates before the centre, leaving lumps. Adding slowly while stirring disperses the grains so they hydrate evenly. Stirring from the bottom during simmering keeps starch from scorching and sticking to the pan.

“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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