Oatmeal Flatbread

Total Time: 38 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
• 3 cups flour (or 2 cups , 1 whole wheat)
• 2 cups quick oats

Recipe

• 1 in a bowl, stir together the sugar, melted butter and salt. in a separate bowl, add the baking soda to the buttermilk.
• 2 alternately add the flour and the buttermilk to the sugar/butter mixture.
• 3 stir in the oatmeal.
• 4 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 5 to facilitate measuring the amount of dough needed for each piece of flatbread, divide the dough into 2 pieces and roll each into a log. cut 1/3 cup of dough from the log and mark the remaining length of the logs accordingly (i.e., 1/3 cup dough for each piece cut from the dough).
• 6 shape the small piece of dough into a round ball.
• 7 flatten it down on a pastry cloth (or floured surface) with your palm.
• 8 roll paper thin with a rolling pin covered with a pastry sleeve.
• 9 roll onto the pin or the end of a wooden spoon and place the dough on a cookie sheet.
• 10 either cut with a pastry cutter into squares before baking or bake the dough and then break into pieces.
• 11 place in the oven and bake for about 8 minutes, or till the flatbread is lightly browned (baking time will depend on thickness of rolled dough).
• 12 slip the flatbread off the cookie sheet onto a metal rack to cool. (break the dough into pieces now, if desired).
• 13 these may be stored in a covered container for weeks.