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By Kim Boyce
Published 2010
Oat flour is the pale color of old pearls, and quite sweet. Like the oats the flour is ground from, it has a mild, milky taste that can blend into the background, neutral enough to complement a variety of ingredients. The Scots, who have long used oats as a staple grain, use it for oatmeal, cakes, and scones, where the grain pairs beautifully with fruit, cream, milk, and butter. Oats and oat flour partner particularly well with chocolate—as anyone who has ever stirred chocolate into oatmeal cookie dough will cheerfully attest.
