#Oatcakes

[askwhatsforlunch]

Saint Patrick’s Day’s Table

Saint Patrick’s Day may be a very happy one for the Irish this year, with the Ireland XV one (rugby) game away from a Six Nations Grand Slam! As I am not a sore loser, and I love good food, I may join in the craic! And with a glass of good Irish whisky and these few recipes, so can you! Cheers!

Breads, Loaves and Oatcakes

Stout Loaf

Dill Soda Bread

Cheddar and Ale Soda Bread

Donegal Oatcakes

Soda Bread II

Oatcakes

Breakfast

Boxty (Irish Potato Pancakes)

Tea

Maíre’s Potato Scones

Meat

Beer Battered Sausages

Dublin Coddle

Irish Beef and Vegetable Stew

Sides

Colcannon

Champ

Sweet and Alcoholic Drinks

Irish Hot Chocolate (Alcoholic)

Irish Coffee (Alcoholic)

[bobs--burgers--flipping]

Cheesy Oatcakes for your Picnic Basket

[andrepessel]

Recipe for Oatcakes These Scottish oatcakes are a wonderful addition to your breakfast table because they are made with whole wheat flour, oats, and barely any sugar.

[petermorwood]

DD also posted about these...

...and mentioned how to make (if you can't get) oat flour:

To start with: If you have trouble sourcing fine-ground oat flour, but do have access to an electric coffee grinder or spice grinder, you can use that to grind down either flaked (oatmeal-style) oats or pinhead (porridge) oats until you have enough flour to make up 230g/2.5 cups. Please note that blenders are no good for this job; neither are food processors. (Also, a note here for the gluten-intolerant: to make sure you're safe from cross-contamination, please make sure you're sourcing your oats, either rolled or as flour, from a processor that does not also handle wheat in its factory.)

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For a long while kitchen fine-grinding duty here used a Braun coffee-mill like this one, which has a fixed cup and blade (i.e. it can't come apart for cleaning).

Despite that cleaning limitation and its small capacity, the Braun has in its time ground coffee, sugar, rice, oats and various spices.

On one occasion the spice was a couple of dried Habanero chillis, which a couple of days later and thanks to inadequate brushing-out of residue, resulted in one of the hottest cups of coffee I've ever tasted.

Lesson learned...

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The best thing for milling purposes is an attachment we bought for our Kenwood. It's a "Compact Chopper / Grinder" which includes several lidded jars.

Just the business for herbs, spices, nuts and of course turning grain into flour. As the second photo shows, it comes apart for cleaning, and while I'm not saying that was a main selling point, it was Well Up There. ;->

We carried out some experiments the other day before posting this, testing flaked and pinhead oats first in the standard blender which came with the Kenwood, then in the small grinder.

(Our Magimix / Cuisinart food processor wasn't included; it's a chopper-kneader-slicer-grater, not a grinder, and we already knew from past experience that it wouldn't work with this.)

We confirmed at once what D has put in her recipe: an ordinary blender - which includes free-standing ones - won't work either. It's meant for things that are, or become, liquid and flow down onto the blades.

Neither kind of oats would do this without repeated thumping of the blender jug, and sometimes not even then since (I think) the plastic jug was getting static-sticky. Would a glass jug have worked better? We don't have one, so don't know.

The small grinder, however, was as I said before: just the business.

First with the flaked / rolled oats; about 20-30 seconds was enough.

Then with the pinhead oats; these needed a bit longer, 30-40 seconds, to create equally fine flour.

Of course attachments aren't much use without the Big Machine they attach to, so anyone interested in small-scale flour milling could get an inexpensive coffee-grinder with a removable cup (easy cleaning, yet again).

I've seen variants with two cups, one for grinding hard things like grains and seeds, the other for chopping softer things like fresh herbs.

If one of those had been available Way Back When, we might have got it instead of the little Braun.

That said, TBH I doubt anything "inexpensive" bought nowadays will still be working after 30+ years, as the Braun has done.

And Habanero coffee is still an optional extra... :->

Two kinds: the basic crisp thin oatcake, and a baking-powder raised variant.

[manulys]

StoneMilled Scottish Oatcakes

[a-nice-thing-that-just-happened]

I made savoury oat cakes for the first time. They turned out great and we had a nice dinner together at the table.

[ghostyknight]

Recipe for Scottish Oatcakes A crispy, buttery crust surrounds the creamy and tender center of these Scottish oatcakes, Chef John's yummier alternative to ordinary brunch pancakes. 1/4 cup self-rising flour, 2 teaspoons lemon juice, 1 cup rolled oats, 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon fine salt, 1 large egg, 1 cup heavy cream, 1 teaspoon lemon zest, 1 teaspoon honey or to taste, 1/4 cup melted butter

[auna-blog]

StoneMilled Scottish Oatcakes

[sub-lexicon]

I’m going to bake out cakes today.

[paye-tarecherche]

Oatcakes - Bread - Biscuits These Scottish oatcakes, made with oats, whole wheat flour, and very little sugar, are a wonderful addition to your breakfast table.

[mycurvyvalentine]

Scottish Oatcakes The creamy and tender center of these Scottish oatcakes, Chef John's scrumptious substitute for typical brunch pancakes, is surrounded by a crispy, buttery crust.

[25thhanabusa]

Vessel.

How do you do fellow Oxventure fans. I haven't drawn in so long, but Wyrdwood was inspiring. I may not draw much for the series, but yknow, I'll try.

[oxventure-text-posts]

[soath]

The thing about Bells Hells is that asking their opinion on anything is like setting up a political survey at a rave under a bridge or in some sort of especially niche genre specific goth club or backstage at an off-off Broadway conceptual show; you’re going to get really interesting answers! They are not going to be representative of the general population in the slightest. There is a faction of people who think we need to solve this by introducing one Designated Average Relationship With The Universe Dave to the polling sample, ruining their beautiful natural diversity of guys-who-could-be-in-the-musical-RENT. To which the wise man says: “Never!” This is the little freaks with half baked philosophies and unresolved personal issues party. More pressingly, it has been noted that Bells Hells doesn’t seem to realize that their relationship with power writ large is bafflingly different from the average Exandrian. This is an problem, but it’s one that could be in-character, one more extension of an admirable commitment to trauma-informed alarming theological opinions.

[within-infant-rind]

[sierradee]

In your shadow

I keep thinking about Robin and Morven.

Someone mentioned a similarity to Zac's character from Dimension20. But the 'parasitic' character Zac played most of the time had been the fun, almost charming one, and the host body was originally a horrid person.

Robin is sweet, well-intentioned, and frightened. As he should be, the woman in his body wants it all to herself and doesn't care about risking its wellbeing in the process.

But, just like Andy's other female antagonist, Victoria (who I still think about daily), who can fault Morven? A woman killed by zealots for practising magic in a world that has literally fallen apart without it. Somehow finding herself still alive, albeit in a body not her own and with only minor say in its movements. Who could fault her for wanting freedom, by whatever the means?