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Oat Groats with Dried Damson Plums

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 cup finely ground oat groats
• 1 cup dried damson plums
• water (as needed)
• butter (piece)
• cinnamon or lemon slices (a little)
• sugar and salt (to taste)

Instructions

1. Scald the dried damson plums with boiling water, wash the oat groats thoroughly and scald them as well.
2. Cook each separately: cook the groats with a small piece of butter until quite creamy and strain through a sieve, cook the damson plums with cinnamon or lemon slices until soft.
3. Combine both and season with sugar and a little salt.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.