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devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: Spoon or spirtle?
« Reply #30 on: January 12, 2015, 08:17:33 am »
Right, then I shall do a test one in green wood and season some more.

pgkevet

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: Spoon or spirtle?
« Reply #31 on: January 12, 2015, 08:55:57 am »
I would have thought that it would warp and split if carved green.

greenwood turning/carving is an artful process... really depends on making some shaping cuts to thin the stock before partial seasoning and returning to the piece - often wrapping in newspape with the shavings so it doesn; dry too quick and split/deform. Its fine if you have a lot of staged items already in process to occupy you.

A seasoned stick shoved on a lathe and it's moments to do - perhaps worth a look in the woodpile for a nice dry log to split for stock?

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Spoon or spirtle?
« Reply #32 on: January 12, 2015, 11:11:14 am »
Which oats do I usually use... well, most often I'll be using the ones from my most local mill, the Little Salkeld Watermill.    I also like the ones from Marriage's.  One of my other favourites are Flahavan's, which are from Ireland; Waitrose sell them and they are very, very good.

(So apparently I lied upthread - none of my usuals are from Scotland!  I'd thought Marriage's were Scottish, but I now realise they are in Essex!  It is true to say that if I am choosing from a selection that doesn't include any of my favourites, I'll choose the Scottish ones.)

I've never tried any of the 'instant' type, although I did see an esteemed TASer having one of the microwave-in-a-pot ones at the first Scottish Smallholder Show, and she said it was an awful lot better than many of the alternative breakfasts-on-the-hoof !   :D

Sometimes I have plain oats, cooked in half-water half-milk, with a few sunflower seeds and sultanas in, and sometimes I mix other grains in - some oatmeal, I love to use some rye flakes if I have some, sometimes I add buckwheat, barley, or other grains I may have to hand.

BH likes it with pumpkin seeds as well as the sunflower seeds and sultanas; we both like to add fresh blueberries and/or raspberries if we have some.  Sometimes I cook it with an apple or a pear cut up into it.

Now and again I add nothing at all.  And very rarely I make it with water and add just a tiny bit of salt ;)
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
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Re: Spoon or spirtle?
« Reply #33 on: January 12, 2015, 11:46:26 am »
I wish Mr F liked all those additives, but he has to have his porridge totally plain, no salt, no sugar, no sultanas, pumpkin seeds, sunflowers etc, just a little milk.  Still, I suppose one little flaw isn't too much to cope with - he's perfect in every other way  :roflanim:
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Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: Spoon or spirtle?
« Reply #34 on: January 12, 2015, 04:48:46 pm »

 
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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Spoon or spirtle?
« Reply #35 on: January 12, 2015, 05:13:09 pm »
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Daisys Mum

  • Joined May 2009
  • Scottish Borders
Re: Spoon or spirtle?
« Reply #36 on: January 12, 2015, 05:34:40 pm »
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cloddopper

  • Joined Jun 2013
  • South Wales .Carmarthenshire. SA18
Re: Spoon or spirtle?
« Reply #37 on: January 16, 2015, 11:41:52 pm »
 :idea: I thought a " spurtle "  was the start of a big leak  :roflanim:

 Porridge & Ronnie Barker ... I  wonder what he would make of a spurtle ?

 Years ago I had some simple cattle feed rolled oats stolen out the farms hand  mill in the farmers barn where dad worked . Stolen by my brother when he was paid to hand mill so many oats for the horses  .
 
They secretly were steeped over night in boiled up rain water , sat on top of the oven of the old pre-Victiorian open fire cooking range .

Somewhere my brother had read that Scotsmen used such " porridge "  oats and ate then whilst standing up having had them sprinkled with salt first .

 So in the morning big bro ( just turned 12 )  strained the water off and boiled it up in clean water on the gas ring . 
Being a bit of a bully he made me ( just turned six years old ) eat 1/4 of a bowl of it with salt sprinkled on it whilst stood at the old pine table .

Half an hour later , I hooped it up all over him as was sat in front of me on the school bus ,  I've never like porridge since then .
« Last Edit: January 16, 2015, 11:49:50 pm by cloddopper »
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