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Oatmeal Porridge

A simple hot porridge made by boiling water, adding salt and finely ground oatmeal, and cooking until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oatmeal Porridge

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the porridge

  1. Bring 3 pints of water to a boil.

  2. Add salt to taste.

  3. With one hand, sprinkle in the finely ground oatmeal while stirring continuously with the other hand.

  4. Cook until the porridge thickens, about 10 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve warm.

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
Its starch swells in the hot water and thickens the liquid into porridge.
Water
Hydrates the oats and cooks them, forming the liquid base of the porridge.

The step that matters

Sprinkling in the oatmeal while stirring. Dry oatmeal dropped into hot water can clump, with outer grains sealing off the inside. Adding it slowly while stirring constantly separates the grains so the starch hydrates and thickens evenly.

“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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