Scott's Porridge Oats

Made with whole milk, raisins added.

Teaspoon-sized nuggets of cold butter buried deep, and a layer of soft brown sugar on top.

And don't lecture me about suicidal food preferences first thing in the morning.

You'll not survive till elevenses.

I'd have to concur with the Toilet Brush Headed one on this. I too am so over porridge. Unless of course you happen to run out of cement when you're laying a driveway or building a BBQ.

From #10: "Made with whole milk, raisins added." That's essentially how my mother made it for my father in the 1930s, except that she put the raisins in at the start so that they were plump when the cooking was finished; we kids hated it that way, so we had our own pot of the stuff, cooked in milk but with no raisins.

From #9: "I cook it with water and salt, then chopped banana, honey, skim milk and a a load of sesame seeds." Except for the sesame seeds, that's the way I prepare it now.

Mmmm.

Who would have thought that it'd be a post on porridge which would finally see the dawg and Grecian reunited? How sweet! :)

I can see the book now: 'Love in a Porridge Climate'.

Or the film: 'The Unbearable Heaviness of Porridge'. (Ye can blame Vinny's current sigline for this inspiration.)

Or the other film: 'Dawg, Grecian and Porridge too' (Ye may blame me for that.)

Or - Enemy At The Plates.

:)

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That's right, but it does not take long to plump up the raisins, when you are cooking slow, as in a milk pudding.

During war time rationing my Gran' always had a shed load of rolled oats, desiccated coconut, raisins, pearl barley, dried/split peas, rice, tapioca, sago, ETC'.

So every soup or stew had pearl barley and split peas.

Every milk pudding, cake, and curry had raisins.

N.American. You must try it with the sesame seeds...a bit of crunch and they go nice with honey and banana. I have them on my banana honey sandwiches as well.mmm

Boil water/add raisins/the oats simmer until done eat with sugar low fat milk maybe add some granola toward the end.