Oakden Recipe Database

These pale golden Buttermilk Scones are from a traditional recipe from Ireland and can be baked on a traditional baking plate (see our shop). With… read more

For the perfect Scottish Shortbread (beautifully buttery, crumbly and ‘sandy’) you should treat the dough as gently as possible … and at the end either… read more

Although ‘pancakes’ are mainly thought of in Britain as large round discs of thinly fried batter, which are then rolled up, there are actually four… read more

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy Pancakes – this is a really quick and easy pancake recipe, perhaps the simplest of all the pancake recipes. And if… read more

This thin pancake recipe (like the continental crêpe) has a really great blueberry sauce, which is flavoured with sloe gin (a gin steeped in sloe… read more

These Pancake recipes are from Hannah Glasse’s cookery book, “The Art Of Cookery: Made Plain and Simple”, published in 1740. From the five original pancake… read more

This recipe makes the best tasting pancakes and bacon with maple syrup. There are other recipes, but many of them promote ‘corner cutting’ and ultimately… read more

The oldest known ‘pancake’ recipe written down comes from the Tudor period. It comes from the cook book, “The good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchin”… read more

Crempog are traditional Welsh pancakes and this wonderful recipe comes with an orange caramel sauce. The only thing of note to remember when making this… read more