Oatmeal and Wheaten Grits
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the pearled oats in boiling water with salt for 10 to 12 hours.
Cook and set
Boil the soaked oats in a double boiler for 1.5 hours without stirring, except at the end.
Pour into molds and let cool before serving.
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
- Pearled oats
- Provide the starch and body that thicken into a grits-like texture as they cook.
- Boiling water
- Hydrates the oats during soaking and then cooks them into a soft, spoonable mass.
The step that matters
Boil without stirring. Stirring during the long cook can break down the oat grains and make the texture gluey or uneven, so the oats are left undisturbed until the end.
“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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