Aside from “Popi’s Scrambled Eggs”, Cream of Wheat or Malt-o-meal, one of my most favorite breakfasts is a steaming bowl of oatmeal with dry wheat toast and slightly creamed coffee. Added to that I may enjoy orange marmalade on that toast. When the cold weather comes, we eat a lot of oats. Some of you may be fortunate to live in the days when “Mairzydotes’ndozydotes’n Liddlelambsiedivy” was a popular song. For the educational benefit of you unfortunates, the whole first verse was: mairzydotesendozydotesenliddlelamzydiveyuhakiddleedivytoowudnchoo? It does sound queer and funny to the ear, but it makes sense. Back in the dark ages, my uncle Ned Austin used to serve a mean, smooth fifteen-cent bowl of oatmeal in his shotgun, six seat cafe in Mount Pleasant, Texas. He would soak the oats overnight, drain the water off, add a touch of cinnamon and cover the whole mixture with pure milk. After bringing the whole pot to a boil, he would turn down the heat and let it just simmer. That big pot of oatmeal didn’t last long, so folks dropped by early. My oatmeal is done the same way. I sweeten it slightly with brown sugar, but I’ve not tried the cinnamon. That overnight soaking does the trick. I looked up “Feelin’ Your Oats” and find it means being ‘frisky’. The most popular opinion seems to apply to oats being fed to race horses to give them a boost in energy. That makes sense, since I do feel a bit ‘frisky’, donchaknow. Try my Uncle Ned’s way, but don’t necessarily make a pot that will serve a bunch of folks, unless you invite your neighbors and family or such for a sleep-over. Cold,left over oatmeal is only good for pets like MAX and MattieT. When added to their morning dry food, they’re not so frisky, but bark at nothing a lot. Have you figured it out? Look it up or wait until tomorrow. That’s what I get from My Box of Chocolates today. Regardless of the rocks and ruts in the road, HIS TRUTH keeps marching on! AMEN
Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy, too! Wouldn’t you?
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