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Oatmeal Jelly

A gelatinous dessert made by soaking oatmeal, boiling the liquid, and setting it with sugar, cream, or sweetened fruit juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Oatmeal Jelly

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the oatmeal in water overnight.

  2. In the morning, strain the liquid through a sieve.

  3. Boil the strained liquid for 15 minutes.

Set and serve

  1. Pour it into molds and set in a cool place.

  2. After 20 minutes, it will jelly and be ready to eat.

  3. Serve with sugar and cream or sweetened fruit juice.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Provides the starch and soluble fiber that thicken the liquid into a jelly.
Water
Extracts the oatmeal's starch and flavor and supplies the liquid that sets.
Cream
Adds richness and fat that soften the jelly's flavor when served alongside.

The step that matters

Boil the strained liquid for 15 minutes. Boiling gelatinizes the starch released from the oats, which is what allows the liquid to thicken and set into a jelly once cooled.

“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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