[Sca-cooks] Oatmeal was Buttered wortes/oatmeal

[Ian Kusz]

For those who are paying attention, this is an excellent opportunity for a
racial slur, political humor, or some kind of pun on the word, "rolled."

Come on, you know you want to.

I, of course, am too highly-evolved.

You sicko.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:07 AM, H Westerlund-Davis <yaini0625 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> What is the difference between Rolled Irish Oats and American Oats then? Or
> is there a difference?
> Aelina
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> From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 8:41:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Oatmeal was Buttered wortes/oatmeal
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> The major company in the States that is associated with oatmeal is
> Quaker Oats, which is now a division of PepsiCo!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Quaker oats is of course not just
> traditional oatmeal anymore - it's granola bars and snack foods.
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> http://www.quakeroats.com/products.aspx
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> The problem with a number of recipes these days is people don't specify
> which oats they mean.
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> On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Claire Clarke wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Angharad
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