To Cook Oat Flakes
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the oatmeal
In a saucepan, combine boiling water and salt.
Stir in the oat flakes.
Boil steadily for 30 minutes, stirring constantly.
Add boiled milk to achieve desired consistency.
Boil for an additional 30 minutes, continuing to stir.
Serve
Serve hot.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Oat flakes
- Their starch swells and thickens the boiling water into a porridge.
- Boiled milk
- Adds creaminess and richness, softening the texture to the desired consistency.
The step that matters
Stirring during the boil. Oat starch settles and sticks to the bottom of the pan and can scorch. Constant stirring keeps the oats suspended and evenly thickened.
“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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