Name: Cheese Porridge
Ingredients: oatmeal; grated cheese; salt to taste

Cheese Porridge

Ingredients

oatmeal
grated cheese
salt to taste

Directions

Prepare oatmeal porridge as usual.
Before serving, stir in 2 teaspoons of grated cheese for each 2 cups of porridge. Season with salt to taste.

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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What each ingredient does

Oatmeal: Forms the thick, starchy body of the porridge as it cooks in liquid.
Grated cheese: Adds savoury flavour and richness, and melts into the hot porridge for a creamy texture.

“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.