Oat-meal Porridge
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Soak the oat-meal in cold water overnight.
In the morning, place the soaked oat-meal in a flat pan and pour over the water.
Add the salt and set the pan into a steamer.
Steam
Cover closely and place over a pot of boiling water.
Steam for 45 minutes without stirring.
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-meal
- Forms the body of the porridge as its starch swells and softens during soaking and steaming.
- Water
- Hydrates the oats so they cook into a soft, spoonable porridge.
The step that matters
Steam for 45 minutes without stirring. Lifting the lid or stirring lets steam escape and disturbs the gelling starch, so the porridge can cook unevenly or turn out loose and gluey. Covering closely keeps the steam steady and the texture even.
“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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