a history of the Staffordshire Oatcake

The Staffordshire Oatcake – a history

by Pamela Sambrook

Retails at £7.95, 124 pages, well illustrated with black and white images, colour cover.

Available from bookshops and personally-signed copies direct from the author – pam.sambrook@btinternet.com.

 Contents includes: 

• An introduction to the context of oatcake-eating in the Pennines

• Illustrations of traditional equipment  used – the history of bakestones back to the Roman period in Staffordshire

•  Memories of oatcake-eating in the Moorlands and the Potteries

•  Recipes, makers etc

•  And possible answers to – ‘Why the Potteries?’