This section is from the book "Hilda's "Where Is It?" Of Recipes", by Hildagonda J. Duckitt. Also available from Amazon: Hilda's "Where is it?" of Recipes.
Ingredients:
2 oz. OatmeaL
I pint of Water.
½ pint New Milk.
Put a pint of cold water into a stewpan over the fire; as it boils dredge in the oatmeal with your left hand, and stir with your right. Boil for twenty minutes. When it is made, send it to table in a soup-plate. To be eaten with a little salt or sugar. Hand round with it a jug of hot or cold milk, or cream.
 
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