Ever had a Staffordshire Oatcake?

[Tiesto]

Just interested to know if any of you guys have ever had or heard of the Staffordshire Oatcake, i've always wondered why it's never taken off elsewhere because it really is one of the best tasting foods when it's filled with the tradtional bacon and cheese!

[SteveD]

I have now!:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A426016

 

http://www.oatcakes.net/

 

Sounds good!

 

[ursula62]

I bought some in Sainsburys once. They looked like pancakes, not like Scottish Oatcakes which are more like biscuits. They tasted OK but I do prefer Irish potato farls.

[Tiesto]

Trust me, as an experienced oatcake eater, (twice a week to be precise) the ones they sell in Sainsbury's are the worst possible oatcakes you could ever buy, very dry and rubbery with hardly any taste, the best oatcakes you can possibly buy are best cooked fresh and bought direct from a Stoke-on-Trent oatcake shop which their are probably around 50 to choose from.

My personal favourite has got to from High Lane Oatcakes, you can even buy them online and have them delivered!! Check out http://www.highlaneoatcakes.co.uk

The most popular way to eat them is to substitute bread with oatcakes when you have an english breakfast, wrap the bacon cheese mushrooms tomatoes in the oatcake and i promise you, you''ll be in heaven.

[sammy snake]

I live in Staffordshire - oatcakes are yummy and people from Staffs who have moved elsewhere usually get regular supplies sent to wherever they are.

They are normally eated as a breakfast type food, with a combination of any of bacon, cheese, mushroons, sausage, ketchup, brown sauce, whatever takes your fancy really - but NOT chocolate spread, as a friend from Norwich enjoys them!!!

They are not sold in many places outside Staffordshire becaue the recipe is usually a closly guarded secret handed down through the family form generation to generation.

Many have tried to copy it and many have discovered that they taste nothing like the real thing (like the yukky Sainsbury's ones).  They are best eaten when they are freshly cooked, not prepacked and days old!

[andy hughes]

I'm from Stoke, so I know the joy of oatcakes on a regular basis. They cosna bate 'em owd duck!