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falcon



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Oat Cakes
#28273174 - 04/11/23 04:43 PM (9 months, 12 days ago) |
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Old fashioned Oats, this will be a recipe for 4 ounces of oats , grind up oats, I like them better when they aren't ground super fine, this is ground in a Kitchen Aid pulse grinder. Add anywhere up to an eighth of a teaspoon of baking soda and same amount of salt. Add about an ounce and a quarter of oil. This is olive oil. I've tried a lot of different oils, butter, schmaltz, bacon grease, beef tallow, ect. they all turn out well, olive oil works well and you don't have to melt it to mix it in. Mix that all so the oil is well incorporated.
Heat up some water, hot works better than cold, about 2 ounces, mix in a little more than half let it absorb and then add some more, 1.5 to 1.8 ounces total works best for me. Most recipes call for 1 ounce, I like it better with more water.

Cut the dough ball in two and flatten each piece out and cut it in quarters, this is traditional, you can flatten it out in any shape you want, a little less than a quarter inch works well. This is getting cooked on an iron skillet, baking is easier, but I've found you get some disagreeable burnt flavor sometimes doing it that way. I'm covering the skillet with a pot cover. Flame on skillet is medium for about 3 minutes then put the cakes on turn the heat down and cook for maybe 5 minutes on a side. It will cook using other burner settings.
 
This is a batch that was ground in a coffee grinder.

with peanut butter and raisons

Edited by falcon (04/11/23 08:15 PM)
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Re: Oat Cakes [Re: falcon]
#28273386 - 04/11/23 06:31 PM (9 months, 12 days ago) |
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I didn't see your last two pics on this post when I looked at it earlier, and was wondering what the heck you do with these, since they seem very lightly seasoned. Using them as a bread-cracker type thing makes sense. I have to say, I've never had these, but I guess it would be kind of like a chewy granola bar?
Do you ever add anything else into the base mix, like putting the raisins or maybe some honey and lemon zest mixed in before they're cooked/baked? Thinkin' some chopped apples, cinnamon and maple syrup baked into them would be pretty tasty.
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They are chewy if there's a lot of water left in them. The drier longer they cook the more they are like a dry biscuit, still though easy to bite into. If they sit and dry slowly over 3 or 4 days after cooking they get hard and not as easy to bite into.
I thought about putting spices in, I think they would fall apart with other things, but maybe not. They are good with meat and cheese stacked on them, mostly I eat them plain.
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