Recipe - Ice Cream Crown Oatmeal

2 cup Quaker Oats, uncooked
(quick or oldfashioned)
1 teaspoon Salt
4 cup Water

FLAKY OATMEAL: Stir oats into briskly boiling salted water. Cook 1 minute
for quick oats, stirring occasionally. Cook 5 minutes or longer for old
fashioned oats. Cover pan, remove from heat and let stand a few minutes.

CREAMY OATMEAL: Put oats, salt and cold water in pan. Bring to a boil.
Cook as above.

Top each serving with a scoop of your favorite ice cream.

TOPPINGS FOR OATMEAL: Top each serving with brown sugar, your favorite
preserves, fresh, canned or thawed frozen peach slices, applesauce,
semisweet chocolate pieces, marshmallows, dates, raisins, honey,
mapleblended syrup or cut or sliced up bananas.

FRUITBLENDED OATMEAL: Add One half cup chopped pitted dates, chopped prunes,
raisins, dried apricots or chopped apple to the water just before stirring
in the oats. Cook as for Flaky or Creamy Oatmeal.

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Reprinted with permission from The Quaker Oats Company
Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias

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