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Oatcakes

Makes about 10 (see picture)

Ingredients:

• 225 grms rolled oats - ground to a flour
• pinch of salt
• 35 grms butter - softened
• cold water

Cooking method:

1. Put the flour in a large mixing bowl
2. Add the salt
3. Mix in the butter well, working it through with your fingers
4. Add just enough cold water, bit by bit, till you have a workable dough
5. Roll the dough out on a floured board, using a sheet of wax paper if necessary, to the right thickness - about 2 - 3 mm
6. Using cookie cutters, cut into the shape or design of your choice
7. Place on a greased baking tray
8. Bake at 180 dgerees C for about 30 minutes
9. When done, place on a rack to cool

Some tips:

1. When rolling out, dont fuss about making the edges neat - when it is thin enough in the middle for about 5 cookies, cut these
2. Then reroll out the remaining dough and cut about three more, and so on
3. For the last one, I just pressed the dough into the cookie shape by hand

Variations:

• You can make your oatcakes sweeter by adding finely chopped nuts, seeds, dried fruit, cinnamon and/or nutmeg to suit your taste
• Be careful not to put too much additional stuff, or too big pieces in. This will make it harder for the dough to stay in shape
• You can also make them more savoury by adding different spices to the basic recipe

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