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Oatmeal Tea

A drink made by steeping raw oatmeal in cold water for two hours and draining the liquid.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Oatmeal Tea

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine oatmeal and cold water in a container.

  2. Let it stand for 2 hours in a cool place.

  3. Drain off the liquid as needed.

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

Raw oatmeal
Releases starches and flavour into the cold water, giving the tea its body and mild taste.
Cold water
Slowly extracts soluble compounds from the oats without cooking them.

“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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