Oatmeal Mush
Ingredients
Directions
Cook coarse oatmeal like rolled wheat.
For a warm breakfast, leave it in a granite farina boiler overnight and heat for a few minutes.
Do not soak oatmeal overnight or try to cook it sufficiently in the morning.
Fine oatmeal can be made like Indian meal and will be ready in forty minutes.
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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