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Old Fashioned Oatmeal

A simple oatmeal prepared by stirring oats into water and cooking.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Old Fashioned Oatmeal

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stir the oatmeal slowly into the water.

  2. Place the mixture in a crockpot for 5 hours.

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, thickening into a soft, porridge-like texture as it absorbs the water.
Water
Hydrates the oats during slow cooking, turning them tender and creating the creamy consistency.

“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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