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Oatmeal Mush

A simple oatmeal porridge made by boiling water, adding oatmeal, stirring, and simmering until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Oatmeal Mush

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the water in a pot.

  2. Sprinkle the oatmeal into the boiling water.

Cook

  1. Stir for 15 minutes until it thickens.

  2. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour in a double kettle.

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 absorbs water and swells, thickening the porridge as it cooks.

The step that matters

Sprinkling the oatmeal into the boiling water. Adding dry oats gradually to fully boiling water, while stirring, spreads the grains so they hydrate evenly instead of clumping into lumps.

“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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