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Mrs Zen Started conversation Oct 19, 2008
8 oz Beremeal
2 oz SR Flour
1 heaped tsp baking soda
1 level tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt
1oz marg or 1 tbs cooking oil
buttermilk or milk
Stir dry ingredients together. Rub in marg or add oil. Mix to a fairly soft dough with buttermilk. Roll out into rounds then cut in quarter. Bake on hot griddle until brown or in oven at 425F or Gas 7 for approximately 12 minutes.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 19, 2008
Yum. I'd go for butter rather than marge though.
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Mrs Zen Posted Oct 19, 2008
Me too. In fact I went for oil in the end.
Beremeal is a kind of oatmeal, and I ended up with dwarf bread. I was expecting scones. 
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 19, 2008
Dwarf bread 
I was expecting scones too. Rising agents too old?
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Mrs Zen Posted Oct 19, 2008
Rising agents brand new today! Flour was plain rather than SR, but I think it really is the fact that the beremeal is basically fine oatmeal.
Not unpleasant dwarf bread. Dwarf bread you can cut in half and butter. But dwarf bread nonetheless.
What I want to know is whether the salt is necessary for the soda and cream of tarter to work, or if it's just because that's how Shetlanders like their food.
B
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Oct 19, 2008
Cream of tartar and baking soda is how you make alternative baking powder but I'm not sure if it's the same quantities as that recipe or not. The alternative doesn't have salt in it so I would guess it's a taste thing.
I've cooked with oatflour a bit, but assume the beremeal is heavier?
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Mrs Zen Posted Oct 19, 2008
It's very brown. It looks and feels as if it has oat bran in it. I might try making porridge with it and see what that's like. 
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Mrs Zen Posted Nov 29, 2008
MR's Killer Brownies http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F38024?thread=6055069&show=20&skip=1180#p72383829
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Z Posted Dec 3, 2008
I'm alive, but left phone at home. Will call when I get in. About 10pm
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Mrs Zen Posted Dec 3, 2008
Okie dokie.
I'm probably staying oop north this weekend - nothing wrong with me, they've postponed Saturday.
B
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Z Posted Dec 3, 2008
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH Ooooh 
Does that mean I get to see you?
Will call when I get in
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- 1: Mrs Zen (Oct 19, 2008)
- 2: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 19, 2008)
- 3: Mrs Zen (Oct 19, 2008)
- 4: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 19, 2008)
- 5: Mrs Zen (Oct 19, 2008)
- 6: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Oct 19, 2008)
- 7: Mrs Zen (Oct 19, 2008)
- 8: Mrs Zen (Nov 29, 2008)
- 9: Z (Dec 3, 2008)
- 10: Mrs Zen (Dec 3, 2008)
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