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Oatmeal Hasty Pudding

A simple oatmeal pudding made by boiling oatmeal with water, then seasoning with salt, butter, and optional pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85,593 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Oatmeal Hasty Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gradually add 2 quarts of water to 1 quart of oatmeal, mixing smoothly.

  2. Stir continually over heat and boil for 15 minutes.

  3. Remove from heat and stir in salt, butter, and pepper if desired.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Starch that swells and thickens the water into a soft, spoonable pudding.
Water
Hydrates the oatmeal so its starch can gelatinize and set the texture as it cooks.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smoother mouthfeel in the finished pudding.

The step that matters

Stirring while boiling. Oatmeal starch settles and scorches on the bottom of the pan quickly, so constant stirring keeps heat even and prevents lumps and burnt flavour.

“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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