Oakcakes

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International-style sweet and satisfying dessert that brings home-style flavor to your table
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This International dessert features Mixed milk and water, Yeast, Fine oatmeal, Plain flour, Salt (or slightly less. The flavors come together beautifully. A wonderful way to end any meal, especially on special occasions. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.

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Oakcakes

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Difficulty: Intermediate
Servings: 1 Calories: 856.5

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This International dessert features Mixed milk and water, Yeast, Fine oatmeal, Plain flour, Salt (or slightly less. The flavors come together beautifully. A wonderful way to end any meal, especially on special occasions. Simple to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand, this is a recipe you will come back to again and again.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the flour, salt and oatmeal.
  2. Warm the liquid and stir in gradually to make a smooth batter.
  3. Crumble in the yeast, stir gently and leave to stand in a warm place for 20 mins.
  4. Stir again and cook in a stong, well greased frying pan.
  5. Pour in enough batter to cover the base fairly thinly and trun out when cooked.
  6. Remarks: This recipe is heavily adapted, but works.
  7. Traditionally the oat cakes were cooked on a `backstone' - a stone or iron sheet, over an open fire.
  8. It is still possible in some places in Yorkshire to buy a `girdle', a cast iron sheet, about 12 in diameter, with a hoop handle - these are ideal.
  9. When cooked, the oatcakes where hung on plain wooden rack suspended from the ceiling, known as bread fleaks.
  10. The oatcakes were eaten either fresh or dried.
  11. They can be fried with bacon, or suttered and eaten alone with cheese, treacle, golden syrup etc

Nutrition Facts

Servings 1

Amount Per Serving
Calories 856.5kcal
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 11.1g18%
Saturated Fat 1.9g10%
Cholesterol 0.0mg0%
Sodium 4879.5mg204%
Total Carbohydrate 156.0g52%
Dietary Fiber 17.9g72%
Sugars 0.2g
Protein 32.8g66%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily value may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

Keywords: dessert, fine, flour, frying, international, less, milk, mixed, oakcakes, oatmeal, plain, salt, slightly, title, vegetarian, water, yeast
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