Name: Steamed Oat-meal
Ingredients: 1 cup oat-meal; 4 cups cold water; 1 teaspoon salt

Steamed Oat-meal

Ingredients

1 cup oat-meal
4 cups cold water
1 teaspoon salt

Directions

Prepare

In a bowl, combine oat-meal, cold water, and salt.

Steam

Place the mixture in a steamer over a kettle of cold water.
Steam for 1.5 hours after the water begins to boil.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Oat-meal: Its starch swells with water and heat, thickening the mixture into a soft porridge.
Cold water: Hydrates the oats so the starch can gelatinize, and its steam cooks them gently.

“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.