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Oatmeal Gems

The Tinfully Family

Oven hot oven · 400–425 °F · 205–220 °Chalf an hour

Ingredients

  • 1 pint cooked oatmeal, kept overnight in a cool place
  • ½ teaspoonful salt
  • 1 egg yolk, beaten
  • 1 cupful whole wheat or white flour, sifted
  • 1 rounded teaspoonful baking powder
  • ½ cupful boiling water
  • ½ cupful milk
  • 1 egg white, whipped to a froth

Method

  1. When cooking the oatmeal for breakfast, make enough extra to have on hand a pint.
  2. Keep this overnight in a cool place.
  3. In the morning, add to it half a teaspoonful of salt and the beaten yolk of an egg.
  4. Sift together a cupful of whole wheat or white flour and a rounded teaspoonful of baking powder and add to the oatmeal.
  5. Thin to a batter with half a cupful each of boiling water and milk.
  6. Beat in last of all the white of the egg, which has been whipped to a froth.
  7. Butter gem pans, pour in the batter, and bake for half an hour in a hot oven.

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