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Oatmeal Porridge

A simple hot oatmeal porridge made by boiling oats in water with a pinch of salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Oatmeal Porridge

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring 4 cups of water to a boil in a pot.

  2. Add 1 cup of oatmeal and ¼ teaspoon of coarse sea salt.

  3. Boil for 5 minutes.

  4. Finish cooking over hot water or in a Fireless Cooker.

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 swells and thickens the water into a porridge 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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