According to Facebook memories four years ago I was feeling rough so my dear hubby went out and got me a cheese and bacon oatcake. It doest look appetising but with cooked bacon and mature cheddar with a hint of brown sauce, the Oatcake was folded in half, hot and tasty.

We used to have the occasional oatcake over the months, it’s a local delicacy. As the artist, author and poet Arthur Berry wrote :

Ode to the Oatcake: 1980

1. Let us pay homage to the Oatcake.
2. Or Otcake or woodcake as the old men called them.
3. The Oatcake is not a cake at all really.
4. Not like the fairy cake or the Eccles cake.
5. Not a cake in that way.
6. More of a Potteries Popadum [sic]
7. A sort of Tunstall Tortilla.
8. A Clay Suzzette.