Oat Cakes

[DEB Profile]

Does anyone have a relable scotish oatcake recipe.
I am avoiding plam oil and the brand I usually buy have gone missing.

[Linnet Profile]

My mother used to make these regularly when we were young - I'm thinking early 50's - and I have her handwritten recipe book but no sign of it there. However I do have another book of hers, 'Tried Favourites Cookery Book' published in 1924, and it has a recipe as follows:

1 3/4 lb of fine meal, 3 oz of lard or dripping, 1 teasp bicarb, 2 teasp salt.
Mix all together with hot water and roll out quickly, and care should be taken not to have the dough too dry. Sprinkle the bake-board well with meal, and also the dough. Cut either square or round. Bake in a quick oven.

I have made them years ago, but I don't know where I got the recipe, but I do know Mum always used lard; I expect something like Cookeen or Trex would work too.

Good luck if you do try it, and please let us know how it turns out.

[DEB Profile]

I made some yesturday using this recipe
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/831133 ... -oat-cakes
They taste fine but were very trickly to handle, I was hoping for an easier to handle.

[cherrytree Profile]

I have made Felicity Cloake’s recipe’ How to make perfect oatcakes’ from the Guardian. Her analysis is interesting too. They were very nice.
I would also look at Sue Lawrence’s recipe too. She is the real queen of Scottish bakery. Everything I’ve made using her recipes has been a great success.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Here’s Felicity’s version

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... SApp_Other

I use her Staffordshire oatcake recipe which is quite different, being a cross between a pancake and a flatbread, and doing duty for both here. My only tweak is to make them slightly smaller using a measured 1/3 cop of batter in a 20cm pan

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... e-oatcakes

[liketocook Profile]

This is pretty much how my Gran used to make them though she used block margarine https://scottishmum.com/2012/05/traditi ... -oakcakes/

[scullion Profile]

meant to post this earlier in the week.
it's from 'a taste of scotland' by theodora fitzgibbon (great name). i can't remember if I've made them but i know i regularly made the bap recipe from the same book as they were really good.

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