Oatcakes

[darkemeralds]

I seem to be on a one-food kick. It happens sometimes. I've been making oatcakes for dinner, like, every day.



Oatcakes

2 cups (200 grams) Bob's Red Mill gluten-free rolled oats
1/2 tsp salt
1-1/2 tbsp (about 30 grams) bacon fat or butter

Put all that in a food processor and grind it up. With the processor running, add near-boiling water slowly till you have a ball of sticky dough.

Roll it out (use some more oats to "flour" the board) and cut it into circles.

Bake at 350F/175C (Gasmark 4, I think) for quite a while--like half an hour?--till they're crisp and dry.

Eat them warm with butter and sharp cheddar. They're kind of addictive. I'd take a picture but I ate them all.



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Comments

[executrix]

I saw a nice recipe for gf pie crust: oat flour, ground walnuts *and chopped olives.*

[darkemeralds]

Chopped olives?

Huh. Sounds interesting. Kind of tapenada crust-ish? Seems like it might be delish in a quiche-like situation.

[executrix]

Personally I detest olives, but I can see how they'd work if you were doing an eggplant filling. Or maybe spinach and ham?

[darkemeralds]

Yeah, a lot would depend on how briny the olives were, too. I like briny olives, but I have a soft spot for those American style canned ones that you put on your fingertips at Thanksgiving dinner.

[ravurian]

You... on your fingertips? Is it a traditional thing?

[darkemeralds]

I had to check, but apparently it is.

[ravurian]

No, I meant, is it a traditional part of how you celebrate Thanksgiving? Like, is there a ritual donning of olives at a certain point or something? It was more the Thanksgiving part than the fingers, to be honest.

[darkemeralds]

Well, yeah. I mean, the Thanksgiving legend goes that when the Head Pilgrim passed the dish of olives around, Squanto, not recognizing the black fruit, first put on on his fingertip, and all the Pilgrims laughed and then they all sang "We Gather Together To Ask The Lord's Blessing" and then they ate the turkey.

[ravurian]

...I honestly don't know if you're being serious or sarcastic. I have no frame of reference for this stuff - it's not my history or culture. The 'you' could have meant either 'US citizens' or 'in your family'.

[darkemeralds]

Sorry! Sorry. Cultural specificity, bad joke.

There is no Thanksgiving tradition associated with olives, to the best of my knowledge, but the canned "Large Ripe Black Olives" are one of those weird mid-century foodstuffs, just expensive enough not to have been an everyday item in a struggling household, and perceived as "fancy." So they would appear on special occasions, and I associate them with Thanksgiving.

The "traditional" part is really just that little kids, when confronted with them, always put them on their fingertips.

[executrix]

Although I am a vegetarian, and *nobody* has ever told me that I need to enhance the amount of fat in my diet, but if those two things were not true I think I would step up my oatcake game by topping them with the traditional bacon.

[darkemeralds]

*makes a note of this excellent plan*

*goes off in a Homer Simpson fugue state* "Mmmm...ba-a-a-connn...the candy of meat."

[kis]

Oatcakes - especially homemade ones - are fab.

[darkemeralds]

And it's not as if I can't buy relatively authentic packaged ones here--even, I think, in at least one of the same brands I saw on the shelves of the gorgeous supermarkets in your neck of the woods. But homemade are so damned simple. Three ingredients plus water--you have to love such a basic, straightforward food that tastes so wonderful.

This kick had better wear off pretty soon, though. I've been known to get a little out of hand with the cheese and butter.