Scott’s Porage Oats

Ugly lockdown baking: Flapjacks

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The cupboards are almost bare, and I’ve intentionally been whittling down their contents to this barren state. I am cautioned that this is the behavior of someone expecting an apocalypse. I’m not. But I am clearing out the stuff that’s been occupying space for much too long, and which no longer has much function. When I used to bake industrial amounts of cakes and cookies, I had a lot of use for bulk stores of sugar and baking soda. Not so now.

Although oats are something I will continue to use, replenishing them frequently isn’t a terrible idea. Thinking of oats, and flapjacks, I can’t help but think of the iconic packaging for Scott’s Porage Oats.

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I wrote in another recent baking post about watching a show that featured a visit to the astounding Tate & Lyle sugar refinery (it’s rather scary to think about the amount of sugar consumed in the world)… as stated, I’m working my way through ingredients that have been in my cupboards for a long time but need to be used, including several containers of Lyle’s Golden Syrup. There are pretty much no better uses for golden syrup (and oats!) than ANZAC biscuits or the very basic flapjack.

Very simple flapjacks

295 grams unsalted butter
250 grams golden syrup
500 grams rolled porridge oats
pinch of salt

Prepare an 8×8 pan – butter the pan and line with parchment for easy lifting out of the pan. Preheat oven to 180C (160C if you have a fan) or 350F.

Combine butter and syrup in a saucepan; stir together until melted. Add oats and salt. Mix well. Press mixture evenly into pan. Bake about 25 minutes (until top is golden). Leave in the pan for 30 minutes, lift out and let cool completely on a wire rack.

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Cut into squares once cooled. Like many such… rustic goods… they aren’t pretty, but that says nothing about what they taste like.

 

cherry blossom girl – Random gum of June 2018 soundtrack

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Cherry blossom girl – Random gum – June 2018
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01 The Shacks – “Let Your Love”
For all the beautiful negative Geminis
02 Lhasa de Sela – “Abro la Ventana”
I hate stumbling onto beautiful contemporary music only after the artist has died.
03 Vessels, John Grant – “Erase the Tapes” …Fear, fear has never got you anywhere/It’s all a misunderstanding, a vague distraction…
Thanks to J
04 Alberteen – “Our Dead Language”
Thanks to Ade
05 The Beatles – “All My Loving”
One of those infectious tunes that gets stuck in your mind, “Close your eyes, and I’ll kiss you”
06 Lucy Dacus – “Troublemaker Doppelganger”
“I wanna live in a world where I can keep my doors wide open”
07 Add N to (X) – “Plug Me In”
Thanks to SD… button yersel up all wrong there, hen. Unless you’re wearing a vest…
08 Nine Inch Nails – “Sin”
Heading to high school & “head like a ho” at Depeche Mode with Leighanne and Terra
09 The Mogambos – “Bi-Aza-Ku-Sasa”
MOGAMBO!
10 Wire – “Eardrum Buzz”
Shaving buzzes. Love to J
11 Kacy & Clayton – “Springtime of the Year”
As a long winter finally gives way to spring
12 Haley Heynderickx – “Worth It”
“Maybe I, maybe I’ve been selfish all along/Finally I’m ready for the silence/Finally I’m ready for nothing”
13 Muzsikás – “En csak azt csodálom”
Hungary
14 Abraxas – “Bisexual Random Trout”
Random disco-ish
15 Zaki Ibrahim – “Profantasies”
South Africa-Canada
16 Hot Chip – “One Life Stand”
True words.
17 Faith Healer – “Light of Loving”
18 U.S. Girls – “Rosebud”
Cheers to Ade
19 Trashcan Sinatras – “Even the Odd”
Glasgow Tesco trips – cheers to SD
20 Sudan Archives – “Oatmeal”
Scott’s Porage Oats pose! Ch-ch-ch-chia!
21 Death In Vegas – “Girls”
22 Wolf Parade – “Fine Young Cannibals”
23 Habibi – “Nedayeh Bahar”
Song of spring. “Where we go/we’ll always be/somewhere close to misery”
24 Nilüfer Yanya – “Golden Cage”
25 Nilipek. – “Kosuyolu”
Lovely Turkish
26 Samantha Crain – “Antiseptic Greeting”
“What happens now is word is spreading I am cruel/When really I am just an oblivious fool/I think I’ll probably always let you down”
27 The Beatles – “The Ballad of John and Yoko”
One of those songs I never tire of for some reason
28 Timber Timbre – “Grifting”
“Faking it to make it/Never give, but take it/Building trust through kindness/To exploit the finest”
29 Palya Bea – “Hívlak Téged”
More Hungary
30 Trailer Trash Tracys – “Eden Machine”
A very vaguely Goldfrapp kind of sound
31 Mattiel – “Count Your Blessings”
“Your body will be whole again/Make yourself at home again/Count your blessings, one to ten”
32 La Luz – “Cicada”
Sweet Seattle
33 Babolar – “Mogambo”
34 Anna Domino – “Land of My Dreams”
35 Eefje de Visser – “Wakker”
The seductive Dutch
36 The Beatles – “You’re Going to Lose That Girl”
It’s not difficult to lose a girl who was never yours…
37 Saint Etienne – “Lose that Girl”
Love to Ben and to Naomi … and you might want to lose that girl anyway
38 Nádia Schilling – “Bad as Me”
Portugal. “Forgive the back and forth/Some anchors drop, crush what it’s worth/But you know, you’re bad as me/Don’t run for cover, walk on your feet/(Even when sore, tired and beat)”
39 Zola Jesus – “Bound”
40 Grand Tone Music – “I Give It All”
My early Swedish music influences, long before living here
41 Faces – “That’s All You Need” …concerns my brother/who’s thin and played violin/woooo!…
For SD the performer, for Erin, for my mom; discussions on Rod the Mod & Paul Hogan imitations of Rod
42 Lord Huron – “Lost in Time and Space”
43 N.W.A. – “Straight Outta Compton”
Insane UK media uses this as a headline about LA-born, royal-by-marriage, Meghan Markle
44 John Cale – “The Man Who Couldn’t Afford to Orgy”
For the man who walks away from orgies
45 Yo La Tengo – “Autumn Sweater”
“When I heard the knock on the door/I couldn’t catch my breath/Is it too late to call this off”
46 Air – “Cherry Blossom Girl”
“I don’t want to be shy/Can’t stand it anymore”
47 Mary Margaret O’Hara – “You Will Be Loved Again”
Beautiful – sad song. I have long loved the Cowboy Junkies’ version but have recently started to turn to the original MMO version. “How could he/Take you in his arms and/Help you free/Then leave you forgotten?/And is it enough to cry/When you’re so broken?”
48 Angels of Light – “Untitled Love Song”
“Show me your ocean red/Kiss the tears that stain my neck/Drug me with visions untrue/But I own a photograph”
49 Frightened Rabbit – “Get Out”
RIP Scott Hutchison
50 Someone – “Forget Forgive”

Full playlist on Spotify.