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Oat Groat Soup

4 servings

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp oat groats, finely ground, or rolled oats
• water (a little)
• 1 l milk
• salt (a little)

Instructions

1. Scald the oat groats and wash several times with cold water, then bring to a boil with cold water and cook slowly until soft with a little water, stirring frequently as it easily sticks.
2. As soon as the groats are soft, bring the milk to a boil, add it, let the soup cook for another fifteen minutes, and season with salt.
3. The soup becomes even more flavorful with rolled oats instead of groats, as they only have soft husks: they are added unwashed directly with cold water and cooked for half an hour, then processed as above.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.