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Oatmeal

A simple oatmeal dish made with water and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Oatmeal

Oatmeal

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a double boiler, combine the oatmeal, lukewarm water, and salt.

  2. Boil for fifteen 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

Oatmeal
Provides the starch and bulk that thicken the 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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