Anyone know where you can buy them from?

My local bread shop used to do them but not anymore :(

You can order them over the internet but it seems a bit costly for what they are?

Try the bakers stalls in the Fish Market

is it just normal oatcakes?

i bought some oatcakes from the local co-op they had a few different varietys. just look in the biscuit isle:thumbsup:

I seem to remember getting them from virtually any supermarket.

What about places like Beanies on Commonside?

Joe

I think of oatcakes as being the little biscuit type things in the cracker section in supermarkets but I knew a girl from Newcastle who insisted they are HUGE great things you can put a fried breakfast on - is that the kind you mean?

Try Biltons on Middlewood Road Hillsborough if not several other small bakeries on same row. By oakcakes I assume Internetowl means a flat approx 6" dia flat oatcake similar to pikelet?

Oatcakes are the large big floppy type that you grill and have for brekky with butter on. I have seen them for sale around castle market.

They are really common in manchester were they are sold in bakers shops. I don't seem to find them as much around sheffield.

I feel like some oat cakes now!

USELESS FACT: You cannot buy oatcakes down south (not sure where "down south" starts but we always take some when we visit my grandma just north of London)

they are not biscuits...they are probably oat biscuits :)

I'll try the market and failing that Biltons on Middlewood Road - they are great with fried breakfasts...

seem to be a staffordshire thing...

Originally posted by Internetowl
they are not biscuits...they are probably oat biscuits :)

Ah but they say oatcakes on the packet - so you can see why it'd be confusing for us southerners. It'd have to be a pretty small breakfast to fit on one of those :P

oakcakes are very common in staffordshire. the best oatcakes are made there. they are gorgeous when seved with bacon, sausage, fried egg, tomato and half a dozen pieces of yummy black pudding. i could just eat all that right now.

you can buy oatcakes at turners bakery in castle market just down the ramp and turn right .

There's a shop on Dixon Lane in city centre sells oat cakes.

Originally posted by andrex
oakcakes are very common in staffordshire. the best oatcakes are made there. they are gorgeous when seved with bacon, sausage, fried egg, tomato and half a dozen pieces of yummy black pudding. i could just eat all that right now.

Too right! It makes me a little homesick just thinking about them! They sell Staffordshire Oatcakes in the Tesco on Ecclesall Road, but strangely never seen them in any other tesco!

I'm off to town to get some :)

talking about homesick etc... there used to be an old fellow on a bike who used to sell them on Wordsworth Avenue when I was a kid....couldn't do it today (1. he'd be about 100 years old and 2. he'd get mugged by the ASBO's on the estate)

seemed so natural at the time, it would seem bizarre / dodgy if someone turned up at the door these days :)

Originally posted by Internetowl
seem to be a staffordshire thing...

Chatsworth Farm shop is a good place to buy them. They do bags of about a dozen for £2.

Nay, Internetowl have yer never heard of Yorkshire Oatcakes? Staffy ones are foul as are the ones you can buy up in the Lake District (think it's the Lancashire influence :D )

Originally posted by Internetowl
seem to be a staffordshire thing...

they are a staffordshire thing.. even in stafford (where i'm from) they are clearly labelled as "staffordshire oatcakes," as they are a completely different thing to a regular oatcake!

oh god, how much do i want an oatcake with bacon and cheese right now.. mmmmmmm..

Originally posted by Internetowl
talking about homesick etc... there used to be an old fellow on a bike who used to sell them on Wordsworth Avenue when I was a kid....couldn't do it today (1. he'd be about 100 years old and 2. he'd get mugged by the ASBO's on the estate)

seemed so natural at the time, it would seem bizarre / dodgy if someone turned up at the door these days :)

I live at Southey Green and I can remember this fella :D My mum & dad always used to buy stuff off him. I remember how we could hear him in the distance shouting "oatcakes, pikelets (crumpets) teacakes". I think he would be well into his 100s by now. Awwww though eh:sad:

Morrisons sell them.

With my job I have to go to Stoke quite a bit, people are weaned on the things there.

Oatcakes filled with Bacon and Cheese - Gorgeous

Havent bought any in a while but used to get them from Sainsburys in Crystal Peaks, and I impressed a friend from stoke-on-trent as she thought I'd gone there to buy some since the pack says they are made in Staffs :P

Let her into my secret after a while and she wasnt quite so impressed. Women ! :loopy:

Does anyone know if they sell oatcakes at the bakery at Netto in Chesterfield? OH has pangs for oatcakes with treacle. Yummy...

Morrisons used to have them and I am certain Waitrose do too.

nearest proper oatcakes appear to be in leek.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106273319835681929644.00000111d16963d6a3719

I've sampled their filled oatcakes (bacon, cheese, tomato), they are sublime

they are everywhere in scotland! my local butcher has them on abbeydale road just opposite the old cinema/ picture house, s7 area and yes they are nice with cooked breaky!

Tesco sell them. They are lovely with melted cheese.

My great grasndmother made a living making and selling oatcakes and pikelets around the turn of the 20th century. For the uninitiated, pikelets are second cousins to crumpets but better. She was also a knockerup, which meant going around the houses in Attercliffe with a long pole knocking on bedroom windows at six in the morning to get the steelworkers out of bed who couldn't afford an alarm clock. Telling tht story in the US causes much amusement because being knocked up means the total opposite to having to get out of bed.:):) I think one of the things I still miss about Sheff is a meal with oatcakes, irish bacon and sausage like me muvver used to make.

Tesco sell them. They are lovely with melted cheese.

Yes Tesco's Infirmary Road sell Staffordshire Oatcakes, however I have got half a dozen in my freezer if you're desperate. :hihi:

I still count myself as being very lucky if my oatcake has got a baby oatcake on the edge....is anyone else as sad?

If you're feeling like a run into Derbyshire, they're not hard to find in the Peak District; Bakewell bakers shops sell them as does Chatsworth Farm Shop (bit pricey in there though!) I seem to remember the butchers and bakers on Lodge Moor Shops stocking them.

Breadline in the market at Crystal Peaks sell them, 3 packs of 4 for £1, got some today mmmmm.

they are great with fried breakfasts...

seem to be a staffordshire thing...

Staffordshire oatcakes - http://bit.ly/4Lb5ct

Chatsworth farm shop does a Derbyshire oatcake, similar but thicker. Doesn't wrap around the fry-up so easily as the Staffordshire oatcake.

If you're feeling like a run into Derbyshire, they're not hard to find in the Peak District; Bakewell bakers shops sell them as does Chatsworth Farm Shop (bit pricey in there though!) I seem to remember the butchers and bakers on Lodge Moor Shops stocking them.

Yes, the ones from Chatsworth Farm Shop are a bit pricey, but you get a huge pile, and they are delicious.:)

If you're feeling like a run into Derbyshire, they're not hard to find in the Peak District; Bakewell bakers shops sell them as does Chatsworth Farm Shop (bit pricey in there though!) I seem to remember the butchers and bakers on Lodge Moor Shops stocking them.

Now they would be the inferior Derbyshire Oatcake :suspect:

Tesco also sell them in packs of 6. lovely with meltred cheese and mushrooms on....mmmmm

Usually get my Staffordshire oatcakes from Tescos Infirmary Road (bread-related items section). They are really cheap there (less than 40p for 6) and it annoys my mum because her local supermarket back in Staffs charges almost twice the price - so I'll have to take a load home at Christmas.

I miss Oatcakes, they dont do them down here in Cornwall, but they do pasties :-)

I've a small mountain of Staffs oatcakes in the freezer, mmmm, they're good with cheese and bacon in them. A bakers' shop in Chesterfield does decent ones if you don't find them in Tesco - it's the quite expensive one where Vicar Lane becomes Low Pavement. I think it's either next to or almost next to Cafe Nero.

There's a shop on Dixon Lane in city centre sells oat cakes.

Kings bacon shop its called, gorgeous oatcakes and the best bacon too!

Coppice Farm on Rivelin Valley Road do lovely oatcakes :D

Make your own! Can't beat proper homemade Sheffield oatcake fried in bacon fat.
500g oatmeal
250g plain flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 oz fesh yeast
1pt milk + 1pt hot water
1 tsp sugar

Mix yeast and 1/2 milk and sugar.
Stand for 10 mins
Pour into dry ingredients.
Stir in gently until a thick paste,then add remaining liquid.
Leave 1 hour.
Fry 1/2 a cupful at a time in hot lard for approx 3 mins each side.

Go on, have a go.

forge island tesco in rotherham sell them...bloomin lovely