Oatmeal Cakes

Ingredients

• One pound of oatmeal
• half ounce butter or lard
• a pinch of salt
• sufficient boiling water to make into an easily handled dough

Method

1. 1

   Mix all together and knead thoroughly; take a small portion and roll it into a ball; flatten it out with a rolling-pin into a very thin round cake; cut this in four and toast on a girdle which you have standing several inches above the fire.

2. 2

   When one side is done, toast the other side in front of the fire till light brown.

3. 3

   Stand them upon their ends till cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 218. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oatmeal Cakes. One pound of oatmeal, half ounce butter or lard, a pinch of salt, and sufficient boiling water to make into an easily handled dough

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