Try the real thing after pancake day...... Staffordshire oatcakes

candlepower_2

they look good will give them a go sometime.

ana8

Thanx guys..I will be trying the recipes out yay

shandyclover

All my teen DD love oatcakes, - I do buy them now and then - but they can polish off a whole packet between them in a day. They would like to take them for packed lunches. I wondered if I could make them economically at home, and thought this would be the best place to ask the experts - has anyone made them?

skintmum2012

Hi do you mean like these http://athlyngreen.hubpages.com/hub/Scottish-Oat-Cakes
or these http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/staffordshireoatcake_92371
Hope that's right.

scottishminnie

I've used the recipe below successfully before. I make them in the oven rather than the griddle method which many recipes suggest.


4 oz (125g) medium oatmeal
2 teaspoons melted fat
2 pinches of bicarbonate of soda
Pinch of salt
3/4 tablespoons hot water
Additional oatmeal for kneading


Mix the oatmeal, salt and bicarbonate of soda together before pouring the melted fat into the centre of the mixture. Mix together and add enough water to make into a stiff paste. Cover a surface in oatmeal and turn the mixture onto this. Work quickly as the paste is difficult to work if it cools. Divide into two and roll one half into a ball and knead with hands covered in oatmeal to stop it sticking. Roll out to around quarter inch thickness. Cut with either pastry cutters or I sometimes use an old teacup if I want bigger ones.

Bake at 190c for about half an hour. Should be nice and brown round the edges.

sb44

Does anyone know if you can use oat bran instead of oatmeal?

stiltwalker

I've used the recipe in Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's Everyday Food cookbook and found them to be very easy to do and more-ish.

squeaky

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