Soft Oatcakes or "Haver Bread"
Dear Aunt Daisy, I wonder if you could give me a recipe for some oatcakes which I remember ifi my eafly childhood? In my old home in England, nearly all the poor widows earned their living making oatcakes; and their children brought them tound to the doors in time for breakfast. They are not hard and dry like the Scotch and Yorkshire Oatcakes, but more like pikelets; and we used to have bacon and cheese cooked in the oven and rolled inside the oatcakes, Please, dear Aunt Daisy, do not scorn the bacon and cheese cooked in this way, if you have never tried it. It is very delicious, even with bread, but with the oatcakes it is more so. Sausage and cheese are also very nice. So if you can persuade one of your "Chain" to produce an oatcake recipe, you will delight "Interested Listener" (Mercer). Yes, I have been told about this kind of oatcake before, by sorne Staffordshite people. They said the proper natne for them was "Haver Bread," and that they were soft, as you say, and used to be hung over the oven door to dry! They used to be mixed with beer in Derbyshire, said my friends, but the recipe that was given me specified water. My friends used to eat them with butter or jam, or sometimes fry them with bacon; but the bacon and cheese cooked in the oven and then rolled up inside the oatcake sounds far the most tasty of all. This is the recipe:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 99, 16 May 1941, Page 46
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260Soft Oatcakes or "Haver Bread" New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 99, 16 May 1941, Page 46
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