Scotch Oat Cake
INGREDIENTS for 4 cakes.-2 lbs. of meal, 2 oz. of butter, 1 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. AVER- AGE COST, 5d.
Put a quarter of the meal into a basin, and a quarter of the butter and soda into a tea-cup, filling this half full with hot water. When the butter and soda are melted, mix quickly with the meal in the basin with a knife, and, after stirring well, turn the mixture out on to a paste-board, and mould it flat and round with the knuckles, spreading it gradually so that it does not crack at the edges. Strew over the cake plenty of dry meal and roll it out thin, then cut from the centre into 3 cakes, and put them on a hot griddle, moving them as they get done from a cool spot to a hotter. By pressing the nail on the surface, it may be known when they are done. Next move them from the fire to SCRAP CAKES. the toaster in front of it, and let them dry gradually. Mix the other 3 cakes in the same way, having one ready as another comes off the fire.
TIME.-10 minutes to bake.
SEASONABLE at any time.