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Oatmeal Water

A simple beverage made by boiling oatmeal in water with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Oatmeal Water

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix oatmeal, salt, and cold water in a bowl.

Cook

  1. Stir the mixture into the boiling water in the upper part of a double boiler.

  2. Boil for 5 minutes.

  3. Cook over hot water for 3 hours.

  4. Strain before serving.

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
Provides starch that thickens the water into a light, gruel-like liquid as it cooks.

“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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