← All recipes

Struan And Soda Bread

Struan And Soda Bread — a community recipe on Potlikkr.

Ingredients

• 450.0 ml Water Boiling
• 180.0 g Oat Flakes Or Oatmeal
• 1.0 tsp Salt

Method (preview)

1. 1

   I thought this would be an easy one to respond to as I have many regional British cook books but an hour later I was still thumbing indexes and failing to come up with a recipe. The best I can offer you is a quote from F.Marian McNeill's 'The Scots Kitchen - Its lore and recipes'

2. 2

   "Struan Micheil (St Michael's Cake) In the Hebrides there is a traditional harvest cake made of a mixture of oats, barley and rye (representing the fruits of the field) baked on September 29th in honour of St Michael. As the bannock gains consistency in the firing it is covered on both sides with three successive layers of a batter of cream, eggs and butter, in the manner of the Beltane bannock Various ingredients are introduced into small struan as cranberries, blackberries, brambles, caraways and wild honey"