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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 13 ingredients

  1. one quart milk over night
  2. One pint cold water
  3. Two tablespoons pure cream
  4. Bicarbonate of soda
  5. One pint fresh milk
  6. one tablespoon oatmeal
  7. one gill of cream
  8. one quart water two hours
  9. Salt
  10. two tablespoons oatmeal water
  11. Lime
  12. Sugar
  13. one pint boiling water
Contains GlutenMilk Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Lime High in vitamin C

    High in vitamin C · 29 mg per 100 g, 36% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of blood vessels.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of bones.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of cartilage.
    11 more authorised claims
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of gums.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of skin.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal collagen formation for the normal function of teeth.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal functioning of the nervous system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the protection of cells from oxidative stress.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Vitamin C contributes to the regeneration of the reduced form of vitamin E.
    • Vitamin C increases iron absorption.

    Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble nutrient found in some foods. In the body, it acts as an antioxidant, helping to protect cells from the damage caused by free radicals. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Limes, raw”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. £KET one quart milk over night and in *^ the morning skim off the cream.
  2. Pour over the cream one pint boiling water.
  3. Boil one tablespoon oatmeal in one quart water two hours ;
  4. strain.
  5. To one gill of cream and water add two tablespoons oatmeal water.
  6. Serve warm and sweeten as served.
  7. Milk Powde* — Peptogenic^ T^IRECTIONS are usually given with ^•^ this preparation, but discretion should be used in the use of cream.
  8. For a child taking two to three ounces at a nursing prepare as follows : One pint cold water.
  9. One pint fresh milk.
  10. Two tablespoons pure cream.
  11. Fill with the powder the measure that comes with the bottle, and mix with a little cold water.
  12. Then mix with the water, milk, and cream, and bring slowly to a boil, which should take ten minutes.
  13. Stir constantly.
  14. This quantity should last a child a day if fed every two hours, and should be given warm (not hot).
  15. Milk — Sterilised* MASH thoroughly with hot water and bicarbonate of soda the bottles to be used.
  16. Fill the bottles to the neck with pure, fresh milk.
  17. Cork them with absorbent cotton, and place in a pan or pot partly filled with cold water, taking care that there is not so much water as to prevent their standing firm.
  18. Bring the milk gradually to a boil ;
  19. boil three minutes, and then stand the bottles aside to cool.
  20. When cold, prepare according to directions with sterilised water, milk of sugar, salt, and lime water.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve