Soot’s Flapjacks

Flapjacks are such old-fashioned, comforting things, the sort of food you should make from a mother’s recipe. My mother, however, didn’t go in for this sort of cooking. Hettie, who has been a reassuring and calming spirit throughout our work on this book, luckily had a mother, Soot, who did. This is the recipe we took out of the handwritten book Hettie inherited from her.

It’s not orthodox, but follo