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There are copies of this in both galic and english. The first dated 1587  
Both containing the same ingreedients. The Scotts always refer to oats grown 
in Scottland as scott oats.  This is to define that they are of scottish 
produce, rather than English oats or Irish oats which they find infierior.
   No the griddle is place over a, in my case gas burner. but I guess it 
could be put in the oven.  But this would tend to  make the oat cakes crack, 
or become too hard.

   Lady Katherine McGuire


>From: david friedman <ddfr at best.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Help!!! Oatcake recipe-long
>Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 14:27:19 -0500
>
>At 10:38 AM -0700 6/9/00, pat fee wrote:
>>  My recipe for oat cakes calls for butter and long pepper.
>>
>>  The one I use weekly is a slightly modern addaptation of the original.
>>
>>  Original (translated)
>>
>>  32 oz ground scotts oatmeal or 1 box rolled oats ground in a blender.
>>   8 oz melted butter or enough to give the dough some "body"
>>   2 long pepper ground in a pestle and morter
>>   Enough water to moisten.
>>
>>   Mix the oats with  long pepper and enough butter to form lumps.
>>   slowely add cold water until dough holds togather (sort of like pie 
>>crust).
>>  Cover a bread board with a hand full of the ground oats and roll
>>the dough out into 8" circles.  Place a scant handfull of the ground
>>oats on a  hot gridle. Carefully place the oat cake on the oats.
>>Bake untill dry and "crumbly" on the edges and dry and lightly
>>browned on the bottom.  Cut into 8 wedges.
>>
>>  This recipe is from my family cook book.  The measurements are what
>>is modern and have been worked out over time.
>
>It's been a while, but my memory is that you said the family cookbook
>contained recipes written over a substantial period of time. Do you
>know what the date of this one is? And when you say "translated" do
>you mean that "ground scotts oatmeal ...." is a substitute for some
>other term in the original? Or was the original in Scots Gaelic
>rather than the Scottish dialect of English?
>
>Also, am I right in assuming that you are putting it on a griddle but
>baking in an oven?
>
>David/Cariadoc
>http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
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