To Make Oatmeal Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Combine the oatmeal and cold water in a pot.
Simmer the mixture for at least 1 hour.
Strain the mixture and allow the liquid to set into a jelly.
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
- Coarse ground oatmeal
- Starch in the oatmeal thickens the water and gives the liquid body as it simmers.
- Cold water
- Serves as the liquid that extracts starch and soluble compounds from the oatmeal and then sets into a jelly.
The step that matters
Simmer the mixture for at least 1 hour. Simmering long enough lets starch and soluble compounds from the oatmeal dissolve into the water. Too short a simmer leaves the liquid too weak to set into a jelly.
“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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