Oatmeal Mush

Ingredients

• 2 ounces oatmeal
• one and one-half pints of water

Method

1. 1

   Soak oatmeal overnight in water, then stir into boiling water and cook for a few minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 102. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OATMEAL MUSH. Soak the oatmeal over night in enough water to wet it, and in the morning stir into boiling water. Cook a few minutes. WHOLE WHEAT. Either boil it slowly until quite soft, or bake 6 or 8 hours the same as beans, omitting the pork, or as a pudding, with sufficient milk to allow it to swell, or about 2 quarts of milk to a pint of wheat. Sweeten to taste, and a few drops of vanilla or lemon flavoring if desired. CORN BREAD. Two cups sour milk, i cup flour, half cup sugar, 3 tea-spoons baking powder, a little salt. Moisten with sweet milk until like cup-cake. Bake in a quick oven or it will not be nice. 298 DOMESTIC GUIDE. BREAD FOR DYSPEPTICS. For I loaf i pint of attrition flour, i pint wheat flour. Prepare with Horsford's Bread Prepara- tion, according to directions that come with it, adding salt and mixing soft with sweet milk with the hands, and bake quickly. To be used when a day old. RYE BREAD. First scald 2 cups of corn meal with boiling water to a thick batter. When this is cool, add one-half of a bowl of light sponge, taken from bread sponge, prepared from potatoes, that has raised over night, one-half a tea-cup of sugar, 3 tea-spoonfuls of soda, i of salt. This stir as stiff with rye flour as can be stirred with a spoon. Let this rise very light and then add as much rye again as can be worked in with the hands without kneading. Drop in a buttered pan and bake one and a half hours. GRAHAM BREAD. One pint yeast, same as used for white bread ; stir in a pint of warm water, and a little salt, then add graham flour until you have a thick batter. Bake 15 minutes longer than the same sized loaf of white bread. It will not rise as much as other bread. OATMEAL GRUEL. Take 2 ounces oatmeal and one and one-half pints of water

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