Oak cakes and Pikelets

[mavrikos 10]

well you should realise people from down south are a bit funny anyway but thats a different subject

[poppypoppy 10]

You can make oatcakes and pikelets yourself...i got a lovely recipe out of the womans weekly mag couple of years ago...its delicious recipe....but chatsworth farm shop do oatcakes in packs of 12..but theyre freezable...

[sezlez 10]

oatcake recipe here

 

http://recipes.recipeland.com/recipe/v/Derbyshire_Oatcakes_42010

[CHRISSY1 10]

I remember when we were kids and the bloke used to come round on his bike with a basket on the front shouting -: ( OAK CAKES AND PICKLETS ) i'm not sure if thats how you spell them, and then there was the other bloke who used to come round on his bike sharpening knives with a grinding wheel on the front and people would come out of there houses with there knives to be sharpened, then there was the walls ice cream man who would walk round the streets with his barrow load of ice cream which he would keep cold with dry ice, if he was around today he would have his barrow took off him.

 

Hi just joined the Sheffield Forum and lots of memories of good old Sheffield. I too remember the oatcake and pikelet man with his bike and basket shouting out his wares. Remember Mom sending me to buy them ... what lovely memories and we lived on Barrie Drive, Southey.

[CHRISSY1 10]

Can anyone on here also remember the hot dog man who used to be parked around the Magnet Area at the weekends? The smell of the onions and his hot dogs were absolutely delicious.

 

Also the old chip shop that was at side of the old Chemist at Southeyin the long row of shops which included the old Butchers which fascinated me because it had a female Butcher. When we were children in the late 50's early 60's we used to collect newspaper and take them to the chippy and the (two old ladies) I think, who used to run it would give us an ha'penny broken fish and some scraps and they were mouth watering!

 

Also not forgetting collecting the Club tickets for the day out to the coast from Southey Club ...." Have you a spare ticket Mister " and I remember with my friend Sharon going around lots of the working mens clubs and we finished up with a ticket for every day of one week!! It was tiring but being young we relished it. We couldnt go around 'begging' for tickets in this day and age now. I feel so sorry for the youngsters of today ... they don't seem to have the 'natural' everyday fun that we had and took for granted.

[shanes teeth 10]

In the terraced streets of Stoke there are Oatcake shops where ,on a Sunday morning you can go to buy fresh oatcakes,plain,or with fillings like bacon,eggs, sausage,cheese etc.I bet nobody in Stoke goes to Subway!

[Rashspateen 10]

In the terraced streets of Stoke there are Oatcake shops where ,on a Sunday morning you can go to buy fresh oatcakes,plain,or with fillings like bacon,eggs, sausage,cheese etc.I bet nobody in Stoke goes to Subway!

POVEYS Try googling it... Best oatie pyoties in the world... Bacon egg sausage tomali and cheese... oh yum yum yum.. Used to live in Biddulph so I know all about oatcakes

[Blade73 10]

I still call em pikelets, everyone around me calls em crumpets. Its like breadcakes outside of sheff everyone as a different name. baps, stotties etc

[gladys clark 10]

I remember that one well,used to go swimming at glossop road baths and call there on way home, luvly jubbly...............

 

I used to swim at Glossop Rd Baths I went to school at Notre Dame in Cavendish St. This Pikelet thing is having wide repercussions am having to find recipes for milkcakes and oatcakes for my sister in switzerland. As she was the one to go and fetch them as I was working at Enzo's hairdressers in Abbeydale Rd on saturdays. The tea would be rounded off with a Birds Eye cream sponge oh the calories!!! whilst we watched Dr Who. Now poor sis can't sleep for thinking about them!!!

[mh01 10]

they dunt make pikelets like they use to, i find them quite dry & tasteless compared to the 70s through to 2000

[PAB1 10]

i remember a piklet shop on worksop road i think that was the road.on our way to school hunsmans gardens annexe.my brother and i use to call and buy one dont remember having margarine on we ate them dry.

[shanes teeth 10]

they dunt make pikelets like they use to, i find them quite dry & tasteless compared to the 70s through to 2000

 

They became subject to Euro Directive 75985(section B2),Pikelets-(standardisation of) in Juiy 2000.They've never been the same since then.Bloody EEC!