Scottish Oat Cookies Food

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.

SCOTTISH OATCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 2 heavy large baking sheets. Place oats in large bowl. Sift flour, sugar, baking soda and salt into same bowl. Using fingertips, rub in shortening until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add buttermilk; stir until dough forms. Transfer dough to floured surface. Roll out dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Using 2 1/2-inch round cookie cutter, cut out rounds. Arrange on prepared sheets, spacing apart. Gather scraps, reroll and cut out additional rounds.
• Bake oatcakes until edges are pale golden, about 12 minutes. Transfer baking sheets to racks and cool 5 minutes. Transfer cakes to racks; cool completely. (Can be prepared 3 days ahead. Store in airtight container at room temperature.)

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.

SCOTTISH OAT SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F. Grease cookie sheet. Combine first 6 ingredients in large bowl. Mix together butter, milk and egg in another bowl. Add to dry ingredients and stir until just moistened. Mix in raisins. Shape dough into ball.
• Place on lightly floured work surface. Pat out to form 3/4-inch-thick circle. Using sharp knife, cut into 12 wedges. Transfer to prepared cookies sheet. Bake until light brown, about 12 minutes. Cool slightly on rack. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cool completely. Store in airtight container.)

SCOTTISH OATCAKE COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix oats, cereal (if used), salt, and baking soda.
• Mix in nuts and fruit.
• Separately, beat oil& egg yolks until they are blended.
• Mix in brown sugar& vanilla.
• Pour egg mixture into oat mixture and blend into crumbs.
• Add milk.
• Stir 3-5 minutes, until the oats soak up most of the milk.
• Sprinkle 2T flour over the mixture and stir another minute or two until all milk is absorbed.
• Drop in large clumps on lightly-oiled cookie sheets, one dozen per 15"x10" sheet.
• Form into 1/4" thick patties.
• Bake at 350 deg.
• F for 20 minutes or until they begin to brown.
• Remove immediately from cookie sheets and let cool.

OATMEAL SCOTCHIES COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• In a mixing bowl, beat the butter, brown sugar, white sugar, egg, and vanilla extract until well combined. Beat in flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and rolled oats until thoroughly mixed. Stir in the butterscotch chips and coconut. Drop the dough by tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto baking sheets.
• Bake the cookies in the preheated oven just until the bottoms are light brown, 7 to 8 minutes. If you prefer crunchier cookies, bake 9 to 10 minutes.