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Anyone else a fan? My god they're amazing. Used to have them as kids, but then totally forgot about them until discovered in Tesco a few years back. Any recipe suggestions? Atm I'm having them rolled up in cheese and onion, grilled, then mayo and spiracha chilli sauce. They don't keep though so I'm having to make six.
Literally the only non hideous thing about visiting Stoke.
Relatively simple for me; Bacon and cheese
Bacon, cheese and mushrooms.....
mushrooms
Ooh. Thanks for the reminder. Off out on a bike ride...
Definitely bacon and cheese with tomato ketchup!! I need to remember to keep my eyes open for them in a nearby supermarket.
White chocolate and grated ginger! Stoke also had some good balti houses and always enjoyed a mooch around Rourkies and Swinnertons
I need to remember to keep my eyes open for them in a nearby supermarket.
Tesco, and I think, bigger Sainsbury's 😉
White chocolate and grated ginger!
Wow, love it! Will be trying that soon.
Just cheese, but as an accompaniment to a full cooked breakfast. The Roaches Tea Room used to be the business for this combo. Not been for a while though.
Off out on a bike ride…
Be careful on the way home!
Ay up duck.
Stoke born, stoke bred, strong in arm, and thick in 'ed.
I'm from Hanley - the family bring them down to Buckinghamshire when they visit.
Alternatively - if desperate...
https://poveysoatcakes.com/product/5-dozen-poveys-oatcakes/
Alas the hole in the wall has gone, but there are plenty of other places.
Now I'm pining for them...
As Staffordians we have a good supply. We always take a load away camping as they are the best thing for breakfast - stick whatever filling in them, bacon, scrambled egg, beans, laverbread, whatever. Best warming them up in a dry frying pan.
There is a downside though. You have to sit round the camp cooker making witty banter along the lines of Tunstall Tortillas, Fenton Fajitas, Burslem Burritos, Trentham Tacos, Chadderton Chimichangas, Etruria Enchiladas, Newcastle-Under-Lyme Nachos etc. Oooh, time flies by. Duck.
Ay up duck.
Stoke born, stoke bred, strong in arm, and thick in ‘ed.
I’m from Hanley
🙂
We used to get taken to Hanley for some reason when we were kids. No idea why, but we were always dead excited to see the metal man on the front of 'Lewis's'. Is it still there? Seemed huge to us kids.
I've lived in Stafford since I was 6 and I can't do the Stoke accent. I can make a decent stab at Brummie, Scouse, Geordie, Welsh, but not Clay'ead. Oh, that's wrong - I can say "straight up the street". It's "street up the straight, duck".
But it's smashing to know that 2 of the country's wealthiest people, Denise Coates and John Cauldwell are both plagued with the crappest accent.
Not been back through for a while but it was still there last time - it's a Debenhams now.
It's never to late to upgrade yourself:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arfur-Tow-Crate-Staffy-Cher/dp/0905074009
Introduced to them at uni by a Stoke lad. They are truly foodstuffs of utter greatness.
Thank you for the reminder, not had some for ages.
Alas the hole in the wall has gone
Are you sure?
Some Stokonian friends of mine gave me several packs of these the other day.
Lush.
Cheese and Marmite, natch.
Alas the hole in the wall has gone
Was this the one in the end terrace south Hanley? Was lush!
Keele Uni Alumni here. They were a staple of just about every caving and climbing trip we did while up there. Loved em. I have tried many times to get Mrs WF to try and make them for me but still not succeeded yet. Will always grab a bag when we pass through. Loved my time up there in the Potteries in the late 80s.
Yes, the original hole in the wall was in Hanley - see the YouTube link a few comments back - it was demolished in 2008 I think - that whole area was regenerated.
They have restarted the business in Fenton - although I've not been to that one -although you've all cracked me and I'm ordering this:
https://holeinthewalloatcakes.co.uk/product/the-offer-box/
Another nice one to come across is the oatcake boat
Derbyshire oat cakes are FAR superior
Derbyshire oat cake for the win.
Crikey. It's all kicking off in the Oatcakes thread! 😳
Must try an make some one day as I'm unlikely to happen across any in a supermarket in Scotland. Discovered them while working on a project in stoke with a late friend who was an avid recipe collector.
Apparently the Staffordshire Oatcake is a throw back to the Raj - soldiers returning home trying to recreate Chapattis using local ingredients
Must try an make some one day as I’m unlikely to happen across any in a supermarket in Scotland.
Not sure why that would be given it's reckoned that they originate from Scotland
Personally I reckon Scottish oatcakes are the ones who take the best oatcake title. Especially the finely milled ones.
Any oatcake is a real treat. I need one for lunch now.
Not sure why that would be given it’s reckoned that they originate from Scotland
Scottis oatcakes are small and hard and biscuit like
Staffordshire and Derbyshire oatcakes are usually about 10 to 12 inches in diameter and soft, almost like thick tortillas.
Not sure how you'd wrap cheese and bacon in a scottish finely milled oatcake, as nice as they may be
Do folks dry fry them, or grill?
What's your Oatcake methodology?
I've been dry panning them and finishing off under the grill mainly but I'm in Warwickshire so know nuttin.
Staffordshire and Derbyshire oatcakes are usually about 10 to 12 inches in diameter and soft, almost like thick tortillas.
Ahh, i didnt realize they were soft. Like to try that type. Scottish oatcakes can injure you theyre that hard 😆
Scottish oatcakes can injure you theyre that hard 😆
they make me think of Dwarf Bread from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
The Roaches Tea Room used to be the business for this combo.
Zackly 😁
Just what I was thinking of.
Yeah, I had never come across Staffordshire oatcakes until a wet Roaches trip meant we sacked off climbing and sought out the nearest cafe. What a find! Much better than, f'instance, a Calmac Scottish breakfast where you have 3 different types of sausage. No, what you need is 1 type of sausage and then a cheesy oatcake. Perfect.
Amazeballs. Used to be able to get them in morrisons in south staffs where grew up but now have to limit myslef until I visit stoke and stock up. Actually found a pack in the freezer this weekend which served as an ideal post-hangover pick me up last night - 2 sandwiching cheddar microwave for 2:30min.
Some stokey friends said you can buy the dry mix mail order so might have a look, but just ripping open the packet and using them is the way forwards.
The oatcake divide is basically the same as North South divide, which is Cannock Chase. I grew up in Staffordshire near Cannock, never heard of oatcakes and luke at the coook boooks until I moved North of Cannock Chase. Now I'm grilling cheese oatcakes all day bud / duck / luke at the coook boook shug.
Can report that the dry pan method is much better. Before today I'd been grilling them like a damned fool. No more melted cheese to clean up or the occasional burnt edge.
Whilst I remember; can anyone identify this cafe where I enjoyed... yes, oatcakes! With a fine breakfast. I was on my way to Alton Towers from Sheffield, couple of years back. It's like a Teabay style place farm shop/cafe. Just on a main road, somewhere Staffordshire-ish. Cracking breakfast.
The large Sainsburys near me often has them.
I often get lazy and go the microwave approach.
Jambourgie- Denston Hall farm shop maybe, out of Uttoxetexetteter on the way to Alton.
Sainsburys near me has them often reduced to 10p for a 6 pack, had them every Saturday lunch growing up in Stoke, grilled bacon cheese and tomato, good times.
Cost kick a bo agen a wo an yed it til it bosts?" ta ra duck.
From just north of Cannock Chase so grew up with these delights. In the 80s I moved away to the soft south for uni and work and forgot about them until about 10 years ago when I was wandering around Tescos and re connected with this culinary wonder. Milton Keynes gives you everything!!!!! Cheese and bacon normally but occasionally honey or on adventurous days Bratwurst and curry sauce
Love these, my Gran used to live up that way and we'd always bring carrier bags stuffed full back home to to the South Coast. Grilled cheese and a line of ketchup is best, tried them with a fried breakfast on the spot but nothing beats cheese!
Got about 60 in the freezer...but...can't eat them anymore as they've got gluten in them. Anyone do gluten free ones?!
Not been to Chesterfield for a couple of years now to see my cousins, had to order some off the website for the hole in the wall!
Our neighbours are from Leicester, they practically bit my hand off over the prospect of a spare dozen coming their way. 👍
For ultimate convenience, roll up with grated cheese and throw in the microwave for 20 seconds (in pairs obviously)
Never had or heard of them until I moved from Brum to Staffordshire (although South - Cannock), had them several times now a few places - lush.
Asda in Cannock usually has loads in.
Oh and Sausage, cheese & mushrooms for the win with a bit of good old Brummie HP!
Never lived in Stoke but mum grew up there. Her dad was a stowker. Put handles and spouts on tea pots. Her mum packed the boxes that went on to the boats at middleport. We always look at the bottom of crockery to check where it was made before using it in our family. And a teapot that drips when you pour is not allowed.
My cousin grew up in biddulph and tells me it’s povey’s or nothing.
You can get a not bad filled oat cake at longshaw cafe- or you could before it was tarted up recently. Not clear if these are the Derbyshire variety. Suspect so.
I’m a fan of cheese and bacon on mine. Warm the oatcake in the microwave first.
Gonna have to get some for breakfast next weekend now.
Ha my dad still looks at bottom of crockery and declares it far east rubbish whenever we go somewhere new unless it's made in Stoke.
Not been back to Stoke for a little while. Wonder if it had changed much.. seems like not.
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/thief-who-stole-viagra-keep-5869313
Hardoned criminal 😂
If they can beat cherry pancakes from a Little Thief, i'm in.