Ingredients
- one pint of oat meal to soak in warm water
Directions
MRS. KETCHUM, CHICAGO.
Mush. — Put one pint of oat meal to soak in warm water (just enough to cover it), a few hours before cooking; then put this mixture into boiling water, salted a little, and let it cook slowly for half an hour or longer. To be eaten hot or cold with butter and sugar or with cream and sugar,
A Heartier Dish is made by cooking it with the water in which meat has been boiled, skimming off the fat and serving with the meat the same as a vegetable.
Soup. — Cook meat until very tender, removing it from the bones; chop very fine and cook with oat meal.
Pudding. — Take eggs, milk, sugar, raisins and cinnamon, the same as for other puddings.
For the Invalid — have it thin, like gruel, and serve with sugar and milk, or cream if it can be* taken. In oat meal are the ma- terials for growth of muscle and bones and substance for the brain and nerves.