These are oaten cakes, sometimes containing seeds, fruits or nuts, as well as spices and were either round or triangular in shape.

Press the mixture flat into a baking tray and bake until you end up with nuggets of crunchy oaten ore.

There was black bread and honeycakes and oaten biscuits; there were turnips and pease and beets, beans and squash and huge red onions; there were baked apples and berry tarts and pears poached in strongwine.

These usually take the form of an oaten cake.

The nest should be made of wheaten, rye, or oaten straw, but never of hay, which is too hot, and favourable besides to the increase of vermin.