Staffordshire Oatcakes

Name: Staffordshire Oatcakes
Prep time: 1 h 5 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 10 grams dried yeast; 225 grams strong wholewheat flour; 1 pint warm milk and water; 225 grams fine oatmeal; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon sugar

You can never have too many side dish recipes, so give Staffordshire Oatcakes a try. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 165 calories, 6g of protein, and 3g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 8. If you have yeast, sugar, warm milk and water, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 5 minutes.

Instructions

Add the salt to the flour and oatmeal.

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Oatmeal

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Mix the yeast with a little of the warm liquid and add the sugar. Allow the mixture to become frothy.

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Sugar

Yeast

Mix the dry ingredients with the yeast liquid to make a batter.

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Yeast

Cover the batter with a clean cloth and leave in a dry place for an hour.

Bake the oatcake on a well-greased griddle or large frying pan.

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Add enough batter to make an oatcake about 8-9 inches across. It will gradually become covered in holes as it cooks and the surface will change from wet and shiny to dull when it is ready to turn, after about 3 minutes. Turn the oatcake and cook for another 2-3 minutes.notes:These freeze well. Defrost them enough to unfold them then pop them under the grill.

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