Oatmeal Mush
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Fill the outer boiler of a double boiler with boiling water.
In the inner boiler, combine 3 cups of water and ¼ teaspoon of coarse sea salt.
Sprinkle 1 cup of oatmeal into the water, stirring gently for a few moments.
Steam
Close the vessel and steam for 1.5 hours.
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
- Oatmeal
- Its starch swells and gelatinises in hot water, thickening the liquid into a porridge.
- Water
- Hydrates the oats and carries heat from the boiling water into the grain during steaming.
The step that matters
Sprinkle the oatmeal into the water and stir gently. Dropping oats in quickly while stirring gently helps them hydrate evenly; otherwise they can clump into lumps that stay dry in the centre during the long steam.
“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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