Add oat flakes to water and boil one-half hour. Add milk and boil one-half hour, add sugar and butter.
Farina or Cream of Wheat Soup
3 pints milk
½ cup farina or cream of wheat
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon sugar
Scald milk and add cereal slowly. Cook one hour and add butter and sugar and a sprinkling of nutmeg.
Milk Chowders
Chowders are also a very acceptable way of serving milk. For rich chowders the proportions used are: Two cups of milk or of milk and water, 1 cup of potatoes cut into small pieces and 1 pound of fish. For flavoring add an onion fried in two tablespoons of fat tried out from salt pork. While these proportions make a rich dish, it is possible to reduce the amount of fish greatly, to leave it out entirely, to use small portions of left-over fish or some salt codfish which has been freshened, or to substitute corn for it. Such dishes are palatable and of reasonably high nutritive value, providing the greater part of the liquid used is milk.
Similar, but less rich and thick, is: