On 11/22/2015 9:36 AM, cshenk wrote:
> taxed and spent wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>>
>> "cshenk" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> taxed and spent wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>>>> Yeah, I know how to cook oatmeal.
>>>>
>>>> But DF had some she raves about, and all she was told was: the
>>>> oats were baked in butter, then boiled with milk and sugar.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> Only a vague one of something long ago along the Smokey Mountains
>>> and it's more how I was told it was cooked.
>>>
>>> Oats were mixed with butter and allowed to toast up a bit in a pan.
>>> Then water with some milk and sugar (was sourghum or brown) were
>>> added at a low heat. I am pretty sure it was canned milk which
>>> doesnt curdle much on cooking.
>>>
>>> Best I can do there and hope it helps.
>>>
>>> Carol
>>>
>>
>> Thanks. As I think about it, the baking was probably done due to the
>> quantity involved. Small batches are more easily toasted as you
>> describe.
>
> Yup, thats probably why. I must have been about 14 and it was a 4H
> organized hiking (mixed with van) trip with stops at various places
> (prearranged to feed us something unique to the area). I remember
> mostly having a lot of fun and being shown lots of edible plants.
>
> One guy started with showing us how to peel edible pine tree bits you
> could eat and we hiked up his ridge for some stuff with the guide then
> on the way back down, we got to taste pine tree spagetti that he'd
> fixed from it (grin, it wasn't very good but it wasn't terrible if you
> were hungry).
>

Oh dear. Sound like Euell Gibbons: "Did you ever eat a pine tree?"
Thanks, I'd rather not.

Jill

> Anyways, the oatmeal dish was described to us and I've passed on what I
> recall of it. I remember I liked it and it wasn't like what Mom made at
> home. Of course by the time I was 14, they'd come out with the instant
> ones so I never got any other type of oatmeal until I moved out and
> made some of the real stuff in a pot. (Mom's 85 now and never was a
> cook but we had 3 square meals a day so no real complaints there. I
> learned to cook on my own later as did my brother. My sister did it
> the easy way, she married a cook ;-)
>
> Carol
>