8 traditional old fashioned Recipes

rough oatmeal (or pin head meal from real mills), oatmeal (like the stuff you get in the shops), really fine oatmeal or plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt, butter, (melted in microwave ), warm water, garlic granules , or, mixed dried herbs , or, cracked black pepper , or, parmesan and/or hard/dry fine grated cheddar mixed, or, dry roast these spices before adding to your dry oatmeal mixture|: corriander & cumin; caraway & dill tops; black onion seeds, add your choice of flavour during the time when you are mixing the dry ingredients together. don tsp try to use fresh herbs as they will burn., i suggest you try the recipe using half the amounts given just to test the quality of your oatmeal and flour, as this is key to the success of the recipe., also, if your oatmeal becomes too dry to roll out, add a couple of tbsp of hot water into the bowl and blast in microwave for 20-30 seconds, mix together quickly and the oatmeal comes back to being plaiable and easy to roll out.

allspice, cinnamon sticks, ground nutmeg, ground ginger, ground cardamom (optional), ground coriander (optional)

oat flour, whole wheat flour or 1 cup traditional flour or 1 cup white, baking soda, salt, unsalted butter, light brown sugar or 2/3 cup dark brown sugar, tightly packed, eggs, mashed banana, plain yogurt (non fat to full fat is fine ), vanilla extract, chopped pecans (optional) or 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional), chocolate chips (optional) or 1 cup toffee pieces (optional), old fashioned oats, light brown sugar or 1/3 cup dark brown sugar, tightly packed, ground cinnamon, salt, unsalted butter, melted, chopped pecans or 1/4 cup chopped walnuts

line a flan dish with shortcrust pastry and bake blind then fill with 1 of the following fillings, traditional, corn flour, lemons, boiling water, caster sugar, egg yolks, knob of butter, farmhouse lemon curd, butter, caster sugar, lemons juice and rind, beaten eggs + 2 yolks, meringue, egg whites, caster sugar

ground beef (i use lean), onion, chopped, bread, broken up, egg, beaten, ketchup, brown mustard, black pepper, milk , as needed

chopped cucumbers, chopped onions, chopped green bell pepper, chopped red bell pepper, plain salt, sugar, cider vinegar, celery seed, mustard seeds, red pepper flakes (for the spicy version)