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Oatmeal

A simple oatmeal prepared by soaking and cooking with water and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Oatmeal

Oatmeal

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the oatmeal in water overnight.

Cook and serve

  1. In the morning, cook the soaked oatmeal for 1.5 hours.

  2. Serve with cream if desired.

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

Diamond-cut oatmeal
Provides the main body and bulk of the porridge as it absorbs water and softens.

“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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