On Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 9:43:51 AM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 3:18:27 PM UTC-5, Mike Duffy wrote:
> >> A few weeks back, I noticed again that Cindy is quite pleased with
> >> oatmeal for breakfast. Of course, I substituted a few things, (crumbled
> >> bacon for raisins, buttermilk for water, maple syrup for brown sugar).
> >>
> >> Thus I end up using almost equal amounts of oatmeal, bacon, egg, syrup, &
> >> buttermilk. Is there an existing word for doing this?
> >>
> >> Then I mix everything in an oversized mug with half a teaspoon of sodium
> >> bicarbonate and turn on the microwave oven.
> >
> > Why the bicarb?
> did you miss the buttermilk? acid+base == CO2 aka foam aka
> levening... IMO of course.
>
>
> songbird

I can't figure out why one would want to leaven oatmeal.

Cindy Hamilton