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Oatmeal Porridge

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Oatmeal Porridge

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring 3 pints of water to a boil.

  2. Add salt to taste.

  3. Sprinkle in the oatmeal while stirring continuously until thickened.

  4. If using finely ground oatmeal, cook for 10 minutes; if coarse, cook longer.

  5. Serve hot in one dish and milk or cream in another.

  6. Dip the spoonful of porridge into the milk as you eat.

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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