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Anyone got a good recipe for oatmeal cookies, or buns etc, when I say oatmeal, I mean the actual meal, not the rolled oats porridge stuff.- found two bags of the stuff at the back of the cupboard. Been browsing t'internet and every one I like the look of, turns out to use rolled oats - even when the recipe title says oatmeal - grr. 
3:32 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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That's because the Americans call porridge oatmeal. You could try this site they sell pinhead oatmeal. How about Parkin? That uses oatmeal too.
I'll try that again!
10:33 pm
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Cheers TA, will try the cookies recipe - do you have a lot of time on your hands, you always seem to find links for everyone.
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a familiar problem , i tend to just stuff the porridge oats in the coffee grinder and use it mixed with normal flour in recipes , doesnt rise as well but makes decent cookies and cakes , cant tolerate wholemeal bread very well so i use it in the bread machine
11:38 am
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Janet, yes, I do have a lot of time on my hands. 
I'll try that again!
10:49 pm
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tried the cookie recipe, there's something worng with the recipe, although they tasted very nice, they look awful and spread all over the baking trays and I had to cut them up in to squares when they came out of the oven, as they had no recognisable shape.
10:52 pm
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on re-reading the recipe, there's alot wrong with it, it doesn't tell you when to add the flour, I added it with the fruit, and I think you probably should have added half the oatmeal or something as however hard I rolled the little balls of dough (very sticky dough) in the oatmeal - there was a lot of oatmeal left.
5:18 pm
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What a shame Janet. Why not e-mail them and tell them the problems that you had, they might just be grateful to you.
I'll try that again!
9:28 pm
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Have done, will let you know what they say
9:56 pm
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Actually, I did too! It might make them act a little faster to get two requests in one day...
I'll try that again!
3:40 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Janet, I had an e-mail from Alford's apologising and saying that they will put the recipe right, but in the meantime, I found this one for you.
I'll try that again!
4:48 pm
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Have you noticed, ladies, that the Alford recipe has 85g flour, and 225g oatmeal; yet the one you have just recommended, TA, has equal quantities of these two.
Perhaps there was insufficient flour in the Alford one (maybe they meant 185g instead ..... 
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A few years ago, and running a stall at a local event, we had always made cakes, biscuits etc, and this particular year, I thought about making some savoury goodies, as I knew our stall was going to be alongside the beer tent! 
Found a recipe for 'Cheese Pennies' - little round cheesy biscuits. They would do, I thought.
Unfortunately, I think they had mixed up the amounts of flour to cheese. They came out of the oven like cheese-flavoured brandy snaps. Melted into a fine meshy thin thing. 
I thought nobody would want these, so I put them in a presentation box, and charged 1p each.
Then a beer-drinking lady came up and bought just five of them. She came back very quickly and bought the rest - she said they were delicious. 
They didn't look like pennies, though ......... 
4:54 pm
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Those cheese pennies are called parmesan crisps now BS! Referring to the recipe for cookies, I must admit that since I do very little baking and have never used oats in a recipe other than for Parkin, it would not have occurred to me to check the quanitities of ingredients, well done you.
I'll try that again!
9:01 pm
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Terrier said:
Anyone got a good recipe for oatmeal cookies, or buns etc, when I say oatmeal, I mean the actual meal, not the rolled oats porridge stuff.- found two bags of the stuff at the back of the cupboard. Been browsing t'internet and every one I like the look of, turns out to use rolled oats - even when the recipe title says oatmeal - grr.
Do you like soda bread? I love it, make it daily.....I use Spelt Flour & a good handful of the oatmeal that you're meaning, it makes a wonderful, tasty, loaf with a great crunchy crust, delicious spreads with butter. It's good for sweet or savoury uses. If it's not soda bread that you like, try using spelt & oatmeal to your traditional bread.
Try the 'Doves' website as that has some good recipes on it and it's interesting too.
I do hope that you find success with your oatmeal cookies, try the wholewheat spelt soda bread though see what you think, there's a recipe for it on this website, let me know what you think.
Good luck, happy baking,
Odelle S. 
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