Oatmeal Flatbread

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 white flour (or 2 cups white, 1 whole wheat)
• 2 cups quick oats

Directions

1. 1

   In a bowl, stir together the sugar, melted butter and salt. in a separate bowl, add the baking soda to the buttermilk.

2. 2

   alternately add the flour and the buttermilk to the sugar/butter mixture.

3. 3

   stir in the oatmeal.

4. 4

   preheat oven to 350.

5. 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. 6

   shape the small piece of dough into a round ball.

7. 7

   flatten it down on a pastry cloth (or floured surface) with your palm.

8. 8

   Roll paper thin with a rolling pin covered wtih a pastry sleeve.

9. 9

   roll onto the pin or the end of a wooden spoon and place the dough on a cookie sheet.

10. 10

    either cut with a pastry cutter into squares before baking or bake the dough and then break into pieces.

11. 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. 12

    slip the flatbread off the cookie sheet onto a metal rack to cool. (break the dough into pieces now, if desired).

13. 13

    these may be stored in a covered container for weeks.