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Preparation info
  • For

    4

    individual 20 cm 8 inch ) Clapcakes
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Oats in the North, Wheat from the South: The history of British Baking, savoury and sweet

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

  • About

Clapcake, clapbread or havercake from Cumbria, northern England, and Clap scones from Scotland, resemble the thin crispbread we usually only associate with Scandinavia. The diary of Celia Fiennes from 1698 tells us how these clapcakes were made in Cumbria:

They mix their flour with water, so soft as to rowle it in their hands into a ball, and then they have a board made round and something hollow in the middle riseing by degrees all round t