Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 17:44:17 -0500 (EST) From: Tari Fanderclai To: yduj@CS.Stanford.EDU Subject: Look, I remembered Content-Length: 1119 Oatmeal bread 1 1/4 cups boiling water 1 cup quick oatmeal (uncooked) 1/2 cup margarine 1 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. baking soda 1/4 tsp. salt 1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional) Pour boiling water over the uncooked oatmeal and margarine. Let stand till cool. Then add the white sugar, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Mix well, then add dry ingredients. Pour batter in one large loaf pan or two small ones. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour. (I have no idea what the cook might have meant by "large" and "small" loaf pans. I use two pans that are 7 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches. I once tried using a large pan and making just one loaf; it was two hours before the midde of it passed the toothpick test, and by that time the outsides had a most unacceptable texture.) >From _Riverside Recipes_, by the Albany United Methodist Women, around 1974. It has a paper cover approximately the color of that of _Wired Women_; should we make something of that? Albany is a little bitty town in Illinois, right on the Mississippi. You care. -------------- So the last time I made this I thought it was too sweet and sticky. Then I was visiting somewhere that I didn't have all the ingredients anyway. So I made this: 1/4 C butter 1 C brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1 C boiling water 1 C old fashioned oatmeal 1 dead banana, mashed 1.5 C flour (mixed grains and wholeness---it was all I had) 1 tbsp baking powder (likely could substitute 1 tsp baking soda, but I didn't have any) 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp cloves 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/2 tsp allspice Pour boiling water over oatmeal, stir, let stand. Cream butter, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla. Add mashed banana and oatmeal. Stir together dry ingreds. Add to wet. Bake at 350 for 40 mins. I used a bundt pan, because I didn't have a 9x13 pan or any bread pans. I had some smaller oblong pan that I don't know the dimensions of, but when I put it in it looked kind of high on the sides. Maybe I'll try again and see what size is good. 9x9? It was also a bit crumbly, but I think that was due to half the flour being rice and thus gluten-free.