Oatmeal Bread
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the whole oats in a double boiler with 8 cups of water for 1.5 hours.
Stir in 1 cup of oatmeal until a heavy dough forms.
Transfer the dough to greased pans and bake.
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
- Whole oats
- Provide the bulk of the dough and a chewy, hearty texture once cooked.
- Oatmeal
- Stiffens the mixture into a heavy dough that holds its shape in the pans.
“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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