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Scotch Brewis

From The American pictorial home book (1883).

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A historical recipe

The American pictorial home book, by Harriet Almaria Baker Suddoth (1883).

United States

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a pinch of salt

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. A strengthening dish.--Pour the desired quantity of boiling milk into the proper quantity of oatmeal in a bowl and stir it till it somewhat cools, add a pinch of salt, and without further preparation eat it.
  2. It is very sustaining.
  3. PRESENTS of bed-clothing, cast-off garments, such as old flannels, stockings, socks, body linen, shoes, bonnets, &c., are often very acceptable to the poor, particularly in winter, when a warm wrapping of any kind, or some fuel would augment their comfort immeasurably.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mixing bowl
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The American pictorial home book (1883), printed page 371, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/americanpictoria00suddiala

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.