Scottish oatcakes recipe

An oatcake is a flat, thin and crisp biscuit that is made out of oatmeal. The traditional oatmeal recipes tend to stick to the most basic way of making it where the only ingredients involved are oatmeal, water, salt and a small amount of fat. A little amount of wheat flour is also used at times. The following is a recipe that can make the Scottish oatcake, which can serve six members:

Ingredients: Fine oatmeal - 8 Oz. Salt –To taste Hot water - ¼ pt Bicarbonate of soda - half a tea spoon Melted butter or Bacon fat- two tablespoon Extra oatmeal (used to rolling) Method of preparation:

First, set the oven to about 375F/Gas 5.If you do not have an oven or fancy making it the traditional way; heat a griddle or heavy frying pan. For the second step, mix the oatmeal, the bicarbonate of soda and salt together in a bowl. Only a pinch of salt should be added to the entire mixture. Now, add the melted fat and the hot water to this mixture and stir the entire thing well till it becomes a soft paste. Now, sprinkle some oatmeal on a board. From the dough into a ball and roll it out on the board and make it as thin as possible and sprinkle some oatmeal on the surface to prevent it from sticking to the board.

Now cut the dough into roughly six or eight pieces, depending on the size of each oatmeal cake that you want. To bake the oatmeal cake, place the contents on a large baking sheet, which is not greased. Bake the dough for about fifteen or twenty minutes. If you’re using a girdle or a frying pan, bake it till the edges curl and once it begins to curl turn it over and cook the other side. They should not be cooked till it becomes brown. You must stop cooking it once it reaches a pale fawn colour. Once the oatcakes are done place on a wire rack for them to cool.