Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus! In Welsh that is Happy St. David's Day and who doesn't need another day to celebrate? Traditional festivities include wearing daffodils and leeks and is celebrated in Wales on March 1st, which is the date of Dewi Sant's death. It marks the resistance of the Welsh to the Normans; resistance is something we Americans know a little something about! These oat crackers is something I had in the UK with a cheese plate and thought it would be nice to make for today, although they are typically Scottish!
Scottish Oat Crackers
1/2 cup Old Fashioned Oats toasted in a 350F-degree oven for 10 minutes.
Into a bowl of a food processor, pulse:
Toasted oats
3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 1/2 cups King Arthur all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp. Kosher salt
1/2 tsp. ground pepper
12 T ( 1 1/2 sticks) cold unsalted butter
Add the butter to the dry ingredients and pulse until a the mixture resembles coarse sand.
3 T cold water
Add the water, through the feed tube while pulsing. Pulse several times to bring the dough together.
Bring dough together and seal in plastic wrap.
Chill about 1 hour. Roll dough out onto parchment paper, sprinkling 1/4 cup (or more) of old fashioned oats over the top surface.
Roll dough to a 10" x 12" rectangle and cut into 2" x 3" crackers, using a pastry cutter.
Chill the dough once more, about 15 minutes, then you can easily separate the crackers for baking.
Preheat oven to 350F-degrees. Bake crackers for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown.
Let rest on baking sheet about 15 minutes, then remove to a rack and cool completely. Enjoy!
Congratulations to Donna Alice! Please email me your address and I will send this beautiful apron to you! Tomorrow, I will have March's apron up; at least that is my plan:-D
