Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 05 9:54 am Post subject: Porridge
It's definitely porridge season - this damp, cold weather just calls out for a piping hot bowl in the morning.
I like a mix of bog-standard oats as a base with a good spoonful of jumbo oats for interest. Salt is essential, of course, and I use just water to cook the porridge. I don't cook it for long - just long enough for it to thicken up. Then sprinkle on some brown sugar and lots of cold milk. Yum!
I got put off water and porridge by Gran's traditional scottish approach which produced something akin to a building material rather than food.
So i go down the cup of oats, two cups of milk, generous sprinkling of sugar. Bring to boil and then reduce heat to very low simmer for aboug 5 mins.
Northern_Lad
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 14210 Location: Somewhere
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 05 10:01 am Post subject:
I use half a glass of oats, a full one and a bit of milk and a teaspoon of sugar. I mix it the night before, then when I stagger down in the morning, 3 minutes on full zap. Leave it while I make my dinner, then eat.
Jonnyboy
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 23956 Location: under some rain.
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 05 10:03 am Post subject:
1 cup oats, 2 cups milk, mix and then microwave
judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
Not sure of quantities, I think I follow the packet. Always jumbo oats, the finer ones look like baby food. Milk, not water. Eaten plain, with jam, or golden syrup No salt or sugar
The chickens prefer theirs plain.
Jonnyboy
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 23956 Location: under some rain.
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 05 10:09 am Post subject:
Judith wrote:
Wot no salt?
sugar, honey, jam or butter
giraffe
Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 272 Location: Nottingham
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 05 10:10 am Post subject:
i make mine with milk and eat it with lots of brown sugar melted into the top. Yum!
They make a scrummy topping. Try it, you might like it.
Northern_Lad
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 14210 Location: Somewhere
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 05 10:23 am Post subject:
Bugs wrote:
They make a scrummy topping. Try it, you might like it.
Nah, I prefer things 'au natral'
mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 24585 Location: mid-Wales
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 05 10:30 am Post subject:
1 cup medium oatmeal, 2 cups whole milk (organic, of course!) cooked toether until it looks nice. Into a bowl, top of the milk and a good dollop of local honey. And yes, the chickens do like it plain, don't they?
No salt or sugar 
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