French Milk Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Combine oatmeal and water in a bowl and let it sit until clear.
Pour off the water and add fresh water to the oatmeal.
Stir well and let it sit overnight.
Strain the mixture through a fine sieve.
Boil the strained water and add milk while boiling.
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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