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Plain Oat Cake

A simple oat cake made by mixing oatmeal with baking soda, adding water to form dough, kneading, rolling, and baking on a griddle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Plain Oat Cake

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dough

  1. Mix the baking soda into the oatmeal.

  2. Add just enough water to form a stiff dough.

  3. Knead the dough on a surface dusted with dry oatmeal.

  4. Roll out the dough thinly, using more dry oatmeal as needed.

Bake

  1. Bake on a hot griddle until slightly browned on one side, then turn and bake the other side.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Fine oatmeal
Forms the main structure of the cake and gives it its hearty, grainy texture.
Baking soda
Reacts with the dough to lift it slightly and promote browning on the griddle.

The step that matters

Adding water to form a stiff dough. Oatmeal absorbs water slowly, so adding too much makes the dough sticky and hard to roll thinly, while too little leaves it crumbly and prone to cracking. Adding just enough water gives a dough that holds together and bakes evenly.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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