The Tunstall Tortilla oatcake recipe inside Potters fans

Last updated : 13 May 2011 By Daily Mail

For all non-Stokies out there, that's a North Staffordshire oatcake, not the parched biscuit variety that Scotland claims.

The Potteries Poppadom, Tunstall Tortilla or the Clay Suzette is a floppy, pancake-like round of oaty goodness and a local delicacy that Stoke fans feel passionate about.

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So much so that even the Stoke City fanzine, which has been up and running for more than 20 years, was named after it.

It's a tradition dating back to when the club's home was the old Victoria Ground. People in the surrounding terraced houses would sell them out of their kitchen windows to fans on their way to the game.

Recipe 225g fine oatmeal 225g wholewheat or plain flour 1tsp salt 15g yeast 450ml warm milk 450ml warm water 1tsp sugar Mix the water and milk together. Mix the salt to the flour and oatmeal in a large bowl. Dissolve the yeast with a little warm liquid and add the sugar. Allow the mixture to become frothy. Mix the dry ingredients with the yeast liquid to make a batter adding the remainder of the warm liquid. Cover the batter with a clean cloth and leave in a warm place for about an hour. Pour out enough batter on a well-greased griddle to make an oatcake of about 22cm. The surface will be covered in holes as it cooks. Flip the oatcake after 2-3 minutes when the top side has a dry appearance and the underneath is a golden brown colour and cook for another 2-3 minutes.

These cottage industries were known as hole in the walls or 'hoe in the woes' if you're going to use proper Potteries-speak.

Forget the obligatory match-day pint and a pie at half-time; oatcakes are the original match-day fare. A few pints and oatcakes 'up Hanley, duck' was and still is, for many, a pre-match must.

Although the hole-in-wall shops no longer exist, there are still oatcake shops dotted all over Stoke-on- Trent.

Meet a fellow Stokie anywhere in the world - and you always do - and a guaranteed topic of conversation will be 'How do you eat yours?'. Whether it's with bacon and cheese, sausage and egg, beans, mushrooms or just plain jam and butter, it's something the majority of Potters feel very strongly about.

There's even an Ode To The Oatcake and a Facebook campaign to get an official Oatcake Day in the calendar.

In fact, the Potters are as proud of their oatcakes as they are of their team and - as the coaches full of fans set off with packed lunches for the three-hour drive to Wembley - there won't be a bacon buttie in sight.?

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Source: Daily Mail

Source: Daily Mail