Comments on: Oatcakes (oat crackers) https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/ Internationally inspired recipes for everyone to enjoy - mostly healthy, always tasty Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:49:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-90091 Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:48:33 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-90091 In reply to Linda.

What wonderful memories indeed! Yes I love oatcakes with cheddar on them. You definitely get different variations, some with finer oats and others more coarse, like these. I've updated the recipe, actually to say you can use oat flour rather than wheat flour, if you prefer (I mainly didn't initially as oat flour used to be harder to find, and you can use either, but is becoming more readily available).

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By: Linda https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-90087 Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:02:51 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-90087 In reply to Caroline's Cooking.

My great grandmother was from Scotland and she gave me her recipe for Scottish oatcakes. She used bacon grease and ground the oatmeal into flour. She did not add any wheat flour. I am sure there are many variations as they used whatever they had on hand. We always had tea with lots of milk and sugar with our "tea cakes" It was also her tradition to have them as a snack with a slice of cheddar cheese. Wonderful memories!!

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-86631 Mon, 31 Jan 2022 01:43:47 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-86631 In reply to Trish.

So steel cut are basically the same as Scottish pinhead, so you can use those no problem. Other oats should work too, as you can get oatcakes with different textures. Though if using old fashioned, I'd suggest pulsing them a little in a food processor to make them smaller pieces as I think they'd be a bit too big if left whole.

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By: Trish https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-86628 Mon, 31 Jan 2022 01:19:55 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-86628 In reply to excelsior.

Hi canI substitute with old fashion oats ? Are steel cut can be use? Please help ME!
Trish

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-86479 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 02:03:24 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-86479 In reply to Louise.

Interesting adaptation, and glad to hear it worked out well!

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By: Louise https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-86476 Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:25:48 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-86476 Hi I have just made these but instead of using butter I used crunchy peanut butter and enough water to bind together. They are absolutely delicious.

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-83821 Mon, 11 Jan 2021 05:22:26 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-83821 In reply to Donna Reid.

Glad you enjoy, not heard of adding ginger in to the mix but glad you enjoy either way 🙂

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By: Donna Reid https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-83816 Sun, 10 Jan 2021 19:00:07 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-83816 5 stars
I make these all the time! I add a tablespoon of ground ginger and they’re sooo good dipped in my tea!

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-80773 Fri, 01 May 2020 04:39:10 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-80773 In reply to excelsior.

Glad you enjoyed. It is a little wet, but shouldn't be overly so - maybe your butter became too warm and so was adding to the moisture level. I'd try to make sure your butter is cold and so you rub or cut it in as you would for biscuits/scones and hopefully this helps. Also maybe try adding part rather than all of the water at first and see of that's enough to bring it together before you add all of it. On the salt, use as you prefer - I used regular table salt which gives a slightly stronger salty flavor, so you may want a little less if you use that, while with kosher salt you will want the full amount.

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By: excelsior https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-80762 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:09:20 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-80762 Thank you for this great recipe.

My questions is the moisture levels--my dough was very wet using the recipe's 3 tablespoons of water; I had to add a fair amount of flour while rolling to get it to hold it's shape. Is this to be expected?

Also, is the salt the normal Morton's baking salt, or should I use kosher next time?

Thank you.

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-80114 Tue, 07 Apr 2020 05:45:03 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-80114 In reply to Sam.

I make other crackers with olive oil but not sure that the flavor is quite right here, though it would no doubt be tasty. I'd imagine lard would have been used traditionally, so that is an option, or else olive oil and just know the flavor won't be quite "traditional".

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By: Sam https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-80091 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:27:53 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-80091 What could I use instead of butter? Olive oil? I can't have dairy.

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-79473 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 08:37:32 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-79473 In reply to Charlotte Yates.

So glad to hear you enjoyed! And I can definitely see that cheese pairing working well.

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By: Charlotte Yates https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-79443 Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:31:40 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-79443 These were amazing! So easy to make and delicious with creamy French Vacharin. Yum! Thank you for sharing the recipe.

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-64904 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:53:47 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-64904 In reply to Ellen.

Absolutely!

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By: Ellen https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-64482 Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:47:12 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-64482 Perfect with cheese.

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-64027 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:00:27 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-64027 In reply to Anne Lawton.

Enjoy, these ones are really easy!

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-64026 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:00:12 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-64026 In reply to Liz @ Books n' Cooks.

He has the right idea, I agree 🙂

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By: Anne Lawton https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63773 Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:54:18 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63773 5 stars
I've always wanted to make my own crackers, I'm going to give these a try!

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By: Liz @ Books n' Cooks https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63772 Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:45:07 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63772 I'm with your son - this is totally something that I'd gobble up!

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63687 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 04:03:31 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63687 In reply to Sue Lau.

That sounds delicious! Actually my Scottish heritage is a different name, that part is Alexander which links in to the Stewart clan and that is in fact Stewart tartan, I think (though more accident than design!)

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63686 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 04:01:24 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63686 In reply to Carlee.

Please do! From everything I have looked at they are the same thing, I keep meaning to look at some side by side to be sure - I imagine there's maybe a slight brand variation but not too much more and it will work either way.

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63685 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 04:00:17 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63685 In reply to Karen.

Perfect! Hope you enjoy.

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63683 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 03:59:48 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63683 In reply to Lisa Kerhin.

Definitely time to try these!

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63682 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 03:59:33 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63682 In reply to Colleen - Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck.

Cheese always wins in our house too 🙂 But my kids will snack on these even without cheese.

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63681 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 03:59:04 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63681 In reply to shelby.

I'd love to know if they were similar or not. Either way, it's nice to make some crackers now and then I agree!

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By: Sue Lau https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63648 Sat, 29 Dec 2018 13:55:48 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63648 I would love these with some soft goat cheese and a bit of whiskey marmalade. I am glad to see you have honored your clan with the Williams tartan in the pics (at least it looks like your tartan?)

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By: Carlee https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63589 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 22:02:44 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63589 Well now I'm curious. I'll have to give them a go with steel cut oatmeal and let you know how it goes.

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By: Karen https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63578 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 19:53:32 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63578 I just happen to have some steel cut oats to make these and some smoked salmon spread to top them. I'm set for lunch!

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By: Lisa Kerhin https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63568 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 17:18:17 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63568 I think I've made a total of ONE cracker recipe in my entire life. This recipe will change that! YUM

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By: Colleen - Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63566 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 16:35:51 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63566 Hand me the cheese! I'm ready to snack away with these crackers!!!

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By: shelby https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-63546 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 13:40:39 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-63546 5 stars
Love making homemade crackers. It has been a long time since I have made them. This brought me back to my childhood as my mom used to make oat crackers!

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-58214 Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:33:14 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-58214 In reply to Seumas.

Thanks, I'd agree with that - pinhead are definitely the best!

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By: Seumas https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-58211 Mon, 11 Jun 2018 01:44:19 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-58211 You have to grind the steel cut oats some what to make the oat cakes finer, but find the pinhead oats for perfect oat cakes

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-54379 Tue, 13 Mar 2018 02:48:14 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-54379 In reply to SecretGarden.

Hi, in all honesty I haven't tested them to know for sure. They are certainly more shelf-stable than say bread or muffins, but I'm afraid I can't say exactly how long they would be good to eat. They would just go stale, though, so if they are not being eaten then I'd imagine fine.

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By: SecretGarden https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-54363 Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:09:04 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-54363 Do they hold up well for say a week or so? We are doing the Secret Garden and a line calls for oatcakes. So i’m Just debating making them... no one has to technically eat them but they look like they’d be hard to replicate as a prop.

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-460 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:48:04 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-460 In reply to Miz Helen.

Thanks so much, I hope you like them!

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By: Miz Helen https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-420 Wed, 21 Jan 2015 03:41:40 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-420 5 stars
I would really like to try your Oat Cakes, they look really good. Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing your awesome talent with Full Plate Thursday.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-398 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 01:48:13 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-398 In reply to Dini @ Giramuk's Kitchen.

Thanks, I hope you manage to try them they are great!

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By: Dini @ Giramuk's Kitchen https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-395 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:00:14 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-395 I've never heard of oatcakes, but I can see how they would be tasty! I love these kinds of crackers because like you said, they make to be the perfect vehicle for so many other awesome things too... I would think the texture of it being crumbly would make it even more interesting to eat too!

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By: Judi Graber https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-382 Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:17:12 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-382 I have been trying to make oatmeal more often as I know it is healthy. Your crackers sound great. Thanks for bringing a healthy recipe to FF #51. I brought a healthy salad! Get ready for FF #52 next week - the big one 🙂

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By: Caroline's Cooking https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-376 Fri, 16 Jan 2015 18:00:49 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-376 In reply to Jhuls.

So true, Jhuls, there are lots of silly names around! These are tasty and a bonus being healthy. Happy FF!

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By: Jhuls https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-370 Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:45:05 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-370 I don't know why such are called such. 😀 Like fish cakes and the like... Regardless of these nit being a cake, I don't mind having them for a snack as they look so delicious and oh. healthy, too. Happy FF, Caroline. <3

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By: Hilda https://www.carolinescooking.com/oatcakes/#comment-360 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:28:39 +0000 http://www.carolinescooking.com/?p=407#comment-360 I absolutely love oatcakes - so much so that I rarely make them because they are just so tempting and go with just about anything. I have been thinking about making them again lately, especially with Robbie B's day around the corner, so thanks for a timely recipe.

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