Oatmeal-pudding
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil 1 quart of water with 1 teaspoon of salt.
Wet 2 cups of oatmeal in 1 cup of cold water.
Cook and bake
Add the oatmeal to the boiling water and stir constantly until thick.
Pour the mixture into a pudding dish and bake for 30 minutes.
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
- Provides the starch and fiber that thicken the water into a firm, spoonable pudding.
The step that matters
Stirring the oatmeal into the boiling water. Oatmeal added to hot water can clump and scorch on the bottom if not stirred constantly. Constant stirring spreads the starch evenly, so the starch granules swell and gelatinize uniformly, giving a smooth, evenly thickened mixture.
“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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