Thread: Oatcakes - the taste of home.

After a recent trip back to Blighty i got the taste for oatcakes again, and so decided to have a go at cooking my own.

Using a recipe passed down over hundreds of years (well, ripped off the internet), i got a flat gridle from Macro (advertised as a crepe maker) and boshed a half dozen up for breakfast.

Mix milk/water, yeast and sugar and set aside in a warm place for a few minutes to froth.

Add oatmeal, flour, and salt to a bowl and mix.

Add milk mixture and oil and whisk.

Leave to rise in warm place for an hour.

Lightly whisk - adding more warm water/milk.

Cook as for pancakes - ladle mix into pan wiped with cooking oil and fry on high heat until top "dries", flip and cook otherside.







Once cooked, cool on a cake rack.

These oatcakes are much nicer when they have cooled, ideally in the fridge for a few hours.


To serve simply warm up, add filling and roll.

My filling in these was cheese and bacon, with a side dish of brown sauce (HP).

Forgot the photo of the chef with TD on in the background.

A traditional Thai pose is used to show the oatcake.

I'm surprised that in the last pic you haven't got your dick out and stuffing it into the pancake as well.

Originally Posted by palexxxx

I'm surprised that in the last pic you haven't got your dick out and stuffing it into the pancake as well.

No penis photos.

^^ Those are oatcakes, not goatcakes!

Never heard of an oatcake but looks good. I'm out of oats but will give it a go once I purchase a can.

Looks good, Stokey.

Then again...It could be a fookin pancake!

Originally Posted by misskit

Never heard of an oatcake but looks good.

Originally Posted by charleyboy

Looks good,

60% oats in those beasts.

Misskit - apparently they are known as Staffordshire oatcakes.

Us lot from Staffordshire just call them oatcakes.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Oatcakes

What are they?

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

a crepe maker

Oh, crepes, why didn't you say so?




Your crepes are too fat.

You might want to consider crepe slithers with lemon, jam and sugar.


Apart from that, they look quite nice.

Sowing yer wild oats again, eh stoker?...

Looks pretty good, mate...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

What are they?

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Oh, crepes, why didn't you say so?

You need shooting you do.

Crepes my arse.

Crepes make you smell of garlic and ride around on a pushbike.


There are no eggs or butter in oatcakes.
There is no yeast or oats in crepes.

Are you cooking in the office?

Originally Posted by Koojo

Are you cooking in the office?

Yes..

You skinny fucking bastard

where's the.....

Originally Posted by Dillinger

You skinny fucking bastard

Saw the missus with the camera and sucked in the gut - a lot.

Oh, and no booze at all for the last 3 and a bit weeks.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

where's the.....

AN OATCAKE IS NOT A FUCKING PANCAKE.

^^ quelle horreur

I'm liking this thread, I fukin love 'Oatcakes'. As a kid, 'Oatcake Day' was always one of my favourites (although my family never added any actually oats into the crepe mix powder).

I might start a gallery, right here on this 'oatcake' thread of my favourite 'oatcake' pix, in support of the OP's efforts. Excellent work OP, keep it up...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Nearly there. Keep up the good work. Here's a pic of what it should look like when you've perfected the technique:

He's there alright......

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

Lightly whisk - adding more warm water/milk.

.......Shiftersville







'It started with a Quiche. never thought it would come to this'

I fuking love that song; brings tears to me eyes it does...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

I fuking love that song; brings tears to me eyes it does...

This used to get to me, I dont even know why, probably all the piss over Xmas

No New Years day to celebrate, No chocolate shifter oatcakes to give away....

Gay thread alert...

I'm flouncing off this thread.

But before i do, perhaps a short history of "The Crepe".



A short history of the crepe.

The crepe was invented by the French in June 1815.
At Waterloo, the English guns fell silent when they ran out of ammunition.
Soldiers from the Staffordshire Regiment offered up their breakfast oatcakes to the sulking gunners, who rolled them into balls and fired them in the general direction of the French army.

The carnage was great.
The French soldiers started to choke on such manly food, and promptly ran off.

Once back home, the Frog soldiers tried to recreate Staffordshires finest by using a baby batter mixture loaded with garlic and butter, as is their want, and produced what is now known as the crepe - French fag food.



"Leg it lads, the Staffords are coming".