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Oatmeal Flummery

A thickened oatmeal dish soaked and boiled, served cold with optional sugar and floral water, and accompanied by wine, cider, beer, milk, or cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rose and wine work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 438 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Oatmeal Flummery

Ingredients

Directions

Soak the oatmeal

  1. Place oatmeal in a broad, deep pan and cover with water, then stir well.

  2. Let it stand for 12 hours.

  3. Pour off the water.

  4. Add fresh water and stir.

  5. Let it stand for another 12 hours.

  6. Pour off again.

  7. Stir in a little fresh water.

Cook the oatmeal

  1. Strain the oatmeal through a coarse sieve.

  2. Boil the strained oatmeal and stir constantly until it reaches a thick consistency.

  3. Pour it out.

  4. Let it cool.

Serve

  1. Once cold, turn it onto plates.

  2. Serve with wine, cider, beer, milk, or cream and sugar.

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. Rose + winetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together438 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Sugar + rosetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,584 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + winetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Oatmeal
Forms the thick body of the flummery as its starch swells and sets when boiled and cooled.
Loaf sugar
Adds sweetness to the mild, bland oatmeal base.
Rose or orange-flower water
Adds a light floral aroma to the finished dish.

The step that matters

Boiling and stirring the strained oatmeal. Starch in the oatmeal thickens as it heats and can scorch or form lumps on the base of the pan. Constant stirring keeps it smooth and evenly thickened before it is poured out to set as it cools.

“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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