It’s baking time! You’re set to whip up monster cookies or oatmeal dinner rollsand discover that the recipe calls for quick-cooking oats. But there are only old-fashioned oats in the cupboard.

This is the one I find most confusing: Many recipes for overnight oats, oatmeal cookies, and oat-topped crisps call for ...

Recently when I was staying at a bed and breakfast in Pennsylvania, I was served a transcendent bowl of oatmeal. It was ...