ways to eat oatcakes...

[HollyElise]

suggestions, anyone?

i have heard one way is to serve them buttered with a slice of cheese on top.

[Celyn]

Ooh, they are good with cheese.

Also good with jam though - some things just DO seem to be able to be good at savoury and sweet. Some people like them with honey too, but, well, I don't like honey* so I can't comment on that one.

Happy Celyn today - I have oatcakes!


* until it is turned into mead, of course, then it is fine.

[Polwarth]

I make my own! I make slightly thicker ones to be eaten with a cooked breakfast - runny egg yolks on oatcakes YUM.

[kathyv]

By the handfulls!

You can spread those flavored cream cheeses on them as well, very yum!

Even plain and single they are a tasty snack!

[Lithgae]

Tesco are now selling their own sort of 'Lunchables' one of which has a stack of oatcakes, a small tub of philadelphia cheese, and another small tub of smoked salmon spread. It's absolutely gorgeous!

But usually, i buy the cracked black pepper oatcakes and just stick them under the grill with cheese on.

[MargaretMacGillivray]

Well, oatcakes, pate and salad makes a fine lunch - and using the cocktail size oatcakes with smoked mackerel pate and is a great snack too.

I have a sister who lives in Germany and when she's back home, she tucks in to oatcakes with butter and marmalade for breakfast! Can't get enough of them.

I like oatcakes with cheese and damson jam - not to everyone's taste, but the tangy damsons complement the cheddar cheese perfectly, IMHO!

I have also seen oatcakes baked like shells for cocktail parties - so that they will hold a soft filling well - prawn cocktail springs to mind.

I hope these ideas help!

Margaret

[HollyElise]

WOW! Those are fantastic ideas!

...and (hee hee hee) Tesco making oatcake "Lunchables." Well i guess that was bound to happen eventually! I'm glad they are any good.

Margaret, I can understand about the cheddar and damson jam. In upstate New York they make apple pie with cheddar cheese. When i first heard of it I think the very idea short-circuited my brain, but i wanted to try it! Once i did i could understand, particularly if you use extra-sharp cheddar, as it has a tang to it that goes quite well with fruit.

You are all making me hungry... i haven't had my breaky yet!