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Plain Oatmeal

If the coarse meal is used, allow one cup of oatmeal, four cups of water, one teaspoon of salt. Place the meal in the double boiler with the water and salt, and do not stir it. Cover the kettle tight, and keep the water in the under kettle boiling. The mush should cook four hours. This length of boiling is not possible before breakfast if done in the morning; therefore, the mush should be cooked the day before it is needed. Leave it in the kettle over night, and in the morning add one-half cup boiling water, replenish the hot water in the lower kettle, and set the whole to boil steadily one hour.