Table for Cooking Cereals

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top 1000The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

By Fannie Merritt Farmer

Published 1896

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Kind. Quantity. Water. Time.
Steam-cooked and rolled oats, Rolled Avena, Quaker Rolled Oats. 1 cup. 1¾ cups. 30 minutes.
Steam-cooked and rolled wheats, H—O, Pettijohns, etc. 1 cup. 1¼ cups. 20 minutes.
Rice (steamed) 1 cup. 2¾–3¼ cups (according to age of rice). 45–60 minutes.
Indian meal 1 cup. 3½ cups. 3 hours.
Wheatlet, Wheatena, Wheat Germ, Germea, etc. 1 cup. 3¾ cups. 30 minutes.
Oatmeal (coarse) 1 cup. 4 cups. 3 hours.
Hominy (fine) 1 cup. 4 cups. 1 hour.