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A Breakfast-cw]^ of Porridge

A simple oatmeal porridge cooked by boiling water and simmering for 45 minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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A Breakfast-cw]^ of Porridge

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the oatmeal with the boiling water until smooth.

  2. Pour in the teacup of boiling water.

  3. Place the jar in a pan of boiling water and cook for 45 minutes.

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

White oatmeal
Forms the body of the porridge, thickening as its starch swells in the hot water.

“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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