Name: Oatmeal with Grated Cheese
Ingredients: ½ cup oatmeal; 1 cup water; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ cup grated cheese

Oatmeal with Grated Cheese

Ingredients

½ cup oatmeal
1 cup water
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup grated cheese

Directions

Bring 1 cup of water to a boil in a saucepan.
Stir in ½ cup of oatmeal and ½ teaspoon of salt.
Reduce heat and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Remove from heat and stir in ½ cup of grated cheese until melted.
Serve warm.

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

Oatmeal: Forms the bulk of the dish and thickens as it absorbs the boiling water.
Grated cheese: Melts into the hot oatmeal to add richness and savory flavor.

“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.