Name: Lemon Oat Bars
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 x 397 g tin condensed milk; 3 lemons, zested and juiced; ¼ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 110 g light brown sugar; 136 g unsalted butter; 100 g porridge oats; 160 g plain flour

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Taste of Scotland’s Islands

By Sue Lawrence

Published 2019

About

Martin Whitmore, one of the Luing island bakers, makes this recipe at least once a week for the Atlantic Centre’s Centre in Cullipool. It is one of the most popular bakes.

Ingredients

For the crumble

160 g plain flour
100 g porridge oats
110

Method

Make the crumble by mixing the flour, oats, butter, sugar, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a food processor until just combined, or rub in by hand.

Tip half of the crumble into the baking tin (a square deep baking tin 20cm square, lined so it comes up two sides for easy removal of the bake once cooked) then press down firmly and bake at