Scottish Oat Biscuits Recipes

SCOTTISH OAT COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat the butter with the sugars until light and fluffy. Add the egg and syrup and mix well.
• Sift in the flour and baking powder and add the oats. Stir until well mixed together.
• Put heaped teaspoons of the mixture onto a greased cookie sheet and flatten slightly.
• Bake for 12 minutes, then lift onto a cake rack. The cookies will be slightly soft, but they'll become firm and chewy when they cool down.

OATMEAL BISCUITS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in oats and milk just until moistened. , Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Roll out to 3/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-in. biscuit cutter. Place 1 in. apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve warm.

SCOTTISH OAT BISCUITS

Steps:

• Combine the oats, flour, baking soda and salt and mix well.
• Add the butter and mix well (a food processor is ideal, but a pastry blender will work).
• Add enough buttermilk to make a stiff dough-- it may take up to 1 1/3 cups-- and mix until moistened.
• Roll the dough 1/4 to 1/8-inch thick and cut with a 2-inch biscuit cutter, then place on a greased baking sheet.
• Bake at 450 (the directions just say"hot oven") until firm (or until hard and crisp, per the original directions), about 8 to 12 minutes.

OAT BISCUITS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line a baking tray with baking parchment.
• Sift the flour into a bowl. Mix in the baking powder, porridge oats and sugar.
• Melt the butter, syrup and milk in a small saucepan or in the microwave and stir.
• Add to the dry ingredients. Mix until the liquid covers all the oat mixture and until well combined.
• Spoon onto a baking tray and shape into rounds, leaving space between each biscuit as they will spread whilst cooking.
• Bake for 10-15 mins, or until golden brown. Leave to cool for 5 mins before removing from tray.

SCOTTISH OAT CAKES

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 190C.
• Mix together the oats, flour, salt, sugar and bicarbonate of soda.
• Add the butter and rub together until everything is mixed and has the consistency of large bread crumbs.
• Add the water (from a recently boiled kettle) bit by bit and combine until you have a somewhat thick dough. The amount of water varies; depending on the oats.
• Sprinkle some extra flour and oats on a work surface and roll out the dough to approx. 1/2cm thickness. Use a cookie cutter to cut out shapes (the final number of oatcakes depends - of course - on the size of cutter you use.
• In a wonderfully Scottish twist/coincidence I found that using an upturned whisky glass makes the perfect size :-)
• Place the oat cakes on a baking tray and bake for appprox. 20-30mins. or until slightly golden brown.