Valentine Warner

Oatcakes

Preparation info
  • Makes

    8-10

    oatcakes
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Good Table: Adventures In and Around My Kitchen
The Good Table

By Valentine Warner

Published 2013

  • About

I love oatcakes - they are really easy to make and perfect nibbling food for walks. I like mine thin, made with fine oatmeal, not the coarse ones that clag up the inside of your mouth. Too many cheese biscuits are overly sweet or confused with chile flakes, sesame seeds and so on. Good cheese needs a fairly blank canvas.

Ingredients

  • 200 g fine oatmeal
  • 2 teaspoons melted lard or saved bacon fat
  • a good

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C fan/180°C/Gas 4. In a bowl, combine the oats with the melted lard or fat, salt and bicarbonate of soda. Dribble in water at intervals, stirring with a spoon. A ball will form naturally. It should be pliable like Play-Doh but not overly sticky, a