Marie Cookpad

  The recipe I am sharing with you today is for an Oatmeal Batter Bread and it is one I adapted from Better Homes and Gardens: 365 Comfort Foods, and I will tell you up front, this is a real winner of a recipe!   I have always had a fondness for batter breads.  They are so much easier to make than regular breads. You can make them simply with a mixer and a bowl.   The mixer does all of the hard work of kneading and helps to create a bread that is both light in weight and in texture. Because these breads are not kneaded it is important to beat the initial batter with a mixer until it comes away from the sides of the bowl and appears stringy.   The remainder of the dry ingredients is mixed in by hand with a wooden spoon and it can be a real work out getting it all incorporated, but do persevere!  Its worth the effort!   Since batter breads use less flour than regular breads, they form a batter rather than a dough and it can be a rather sticky batter! ...

  If I was a much better, more dedicated to my craft blogger, you would never see photos like these.  I Would take the time to pipe the cream into the buns so that everything looked all nice and pretty, setting the shot up perfectly with teapots and cups and tea clothes, etc.   That's not me.  I tend to just show you things as they are.  Simple without too many frills and not overly fancied up. Not that there is anything wrong with fancying things up a bit. That's just not me.   Besides today, by the time I got these done, it was getting late, I was losing the light and to be honest I was beat, beat, beat.  I actually started these about 6:30 this morning.  I had three other recipes to do for another site and so I had to fit them all in while I still had the light with me.   But you don't want to know about all of that . . .  you want to know about these tasty buns.  Cornish Splits.  I am sure you have all heard of Cream Teas, ...

  In January I started writing on another site called Home Chef World.   I was hired to provide them with between 4 and 8 recipe posts a month.  This is in addition to what I share here.   I have really enjoyed doing it thus far and I hope this lasts a long longer than my other job did.  One never knows with the unstable world we are living in at the moment, but one thing is for sure, people will always want and need to eat.   One of the recipes I will be sharing on there over this next month required English Muffins.  Do you think I could find any?  None to be had anywhere, and I tried.  We are living in precarious times and I have realised that certain things have become very difficult to find.  One is flour (we won't talk about toilet paper).     I am rationing my flour out very carefully because I don't know how long it will be before I can get any more.  It has become a very precious commodity in this house....