Creme d'Houline

Ingredients

• One quart of milk
• three ounces of oatmeal
• two eggs
• one ounce of butter
• two tablespoonfuls of cream
• nutmeg, mace, and salt

Method

1. 1

   Put a quart of milk into an iron saucepan, and when boiling stir into the milk the oatmeal.

2. 2

   Boil slowly for an hour, stirring frequently.

3. 3

   Next pass the porridge through a wire sieve, and mix with it the other ingredients.

4. 4

   Pour the mixture into a buttered tin mould, and cover over with paper.

5. 5

   Steam slowly for half an hour.

6. 6

   Turn out; serve with mushroom or bechamel sauce, and garnish with peas, French beans, or mushrooms.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soups, savouries, sweets, with a chapter on breads (1889) by Practical housewife, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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