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General Directions for Cooking Cereals

Use a double boiler or two sauce pans, one a trifle larger than the other. Fill the larger sauce pan or lower part of double boiler full of water and put the water needed for the cereal in the other vessel. When the water boils add the salt and cereal slowly so that the water does not stop boiling and let boil for ten minutes. Place the pot with cereal into the double boiler and cover and let steam. If the cereal seems to be too thick, add boiling water. The oatmeal, hominy and other coarse grain cereals are improved by soaking overnight in water. They should be cooked in the water in which they have been soaked.