Oatmeal Gruel
1⁄2 cup rolled oats
3 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon salt
Milk to taste
Put the oatmeal, salt and water into a cooker-pan, boil it five minutes and set it in a cooker for eight or ten hours over a cooker-pail of boiling water. Rub it through a strainer, dilute it with hot milk and pour it again through a strainer.