[Sca-cooks] Oatmeal was Buttered wortes/oatmeal

[Johnna Holloway]

The major company in the States that is associated with oatmeal is
Quaker Oats, which is now a division of PepsiCo!

Andy Smith notes in The Oxford Ency. of Food and Drink
"By the nineteenth century, grocery stores sold oat products in bulk.  
Customers could choose from groats, the whole oat with its outer  
shell; grits, hulled oat kernels, coarsely ground; and oatmeal, which  
was milled into several different grades of fineness. In 1877, rolled  
oats were developed and trademarked by Henry D. Seymour and William  
Heston, who had established the Quaker Mill Company." Quaker included  
recipes on their traditional round boxes and by the 20th century these  
recipes
included oats in soup, cakes, cookies, wafers, drops, macaroons, quick  
breads and yeast breads, muffins, cones, and pancakes and as a filler  
and binder in meatloaf, hamburger, and sausage.

To make the long story short, rolled oats and Quaker traditional  
oatmeal took over. That was followed by minute oatmeal and instant  
oatmeal.
Oats with groats that had to be cooked for 20 or 30 minutes, are you  
kidding?  Only in the past twenty years with the rise of the whole  
foods/grains/real bread movement have we
seen the demand rise for imported real oats or organic oats. And  
recipes that call for them.

Quaker oats is of course not just
  traditional oatmeal anymore - it's granola bars and snack foods.

http://www.quakeroats.com/products.aspx

The problem with a number of recipes these days is people don't  
specify which oats they mean.

Johnnae



On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Claire Clarke wrote:

> As a matter of curiosity, when Americans say 'oatmeal' do they mean
> porridge? This is the impression I have. For me, raised in England,  
> and
> living most of my adult life in Australia, oatmeal is the finely  
> ground
> stuff, and porridge is a breakfast cereal made with rolled oats.
>
> Angharad