Oat Meal Water
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Grind the oats using a meat chopper.
Pour the boiling water over the ground oats.
Steep
Let the mixture stand in a warm place (about 80°F) for at least 2 hours.
Strain and chill
Carefully pour off the liquid, allowing the oatmeal to settle at the bottom.
Strain the liquid through double cheesecloth or a jelly bag.
Chill thoroughly before serving.
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
- Oats
- Starch and soluble fiber release into the water, giving the liquid body and a thicker feel.
The step that matters
Carefully pour off the liquid. Settled oat sediment sits at the bottom of the bowl. Disturbing it while pouring sends fine particles into the liquid, making the strained result cloudy and gritty.
“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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