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Oat Meal for Children

A simple oatmeal prepared by soaking oats in water, boiling until thick, and seasoning with sugar or salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oat Meal for Children

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the oat meal in the water for 12 hours.

  2. Strain the mixture through a sieve.

  3. Boil the strained mixture until it reaches a jelly-like consistency.

  4. Add sugar or salt to taste.

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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What each ingredient does

Oat meal
Provides the starch that thickens the liquid into a jelly-like consistency when boiled.

The step that matters

Boil the strained mixture until it reaches a jelly-like consistency. Starch from the oats thickens as it heats and gelatinises in the water. Stop boiling too early and the porridge stays thin; boil too long and it can become overly stiff and stick 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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