[Sca-cooks] Riddle was oatcakes
Karstyl
karstyl at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 19:45:02 PDT 2009
Terry Decker wrote:
> Interesting word. A riddle is a coarse sieve used to seperate grain
> from chaff. The two common forms of riddle appear to be a plate with
> holes drilled in it or a wooden rim strung with a coarse wire mesh.
> From the usage, a riddle cake appears to be an oatcake made from coarse
> grain rather than from cut or milled oats. And yes it is the source of
> the term, "riddle with bullets," from an earlier term, "to make a riddle
> of."
>
> Bear
This made me think of funnel cakes. If you put a medium thick batter in
a plate with holes it would drop down in spots, making a thin, lacy,
crispy cake on a griddle. The drops of batter should spread into each
other. I have not read enough period oatcake recipes to know if this is
plausible, so I could be way off, but I am trying to think 'outside the
box' of modern cooking and to have fewer pre-conceived notions about how
is should/must be. So it is just a thought I am throwing out there.
Reyni-Hrefna
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