Oatmeal Crackers

Norwegian Oatmeal Crackers

These delicious oatmeal crackers can be served as healthy snacks.

You can serve them with soups and salads; in making appetizers or enjoy for breakfast.

"U no", in Norway", we eat cheese, salami and even fish for breakfast. Yummy!

This recipe for Norwegian Crackers will make a huge amount.

That is a good thing that because they will go fast like snow melting in hot sun.

Years ago, I lived in Minneapolis. My roommate, Randi from Kristiansund, and I had tons of fun together. Once in a while we got the urge to bake and we would made tons of these tasty crackers. Our boyfriends got the job as "food tasters", which they really liked. I guess as most guys they enjoyed eating.

Since this is such a good recipe I decided to give it to you.

Ingredients:
1 pound 2 ounces regular oatmeal
1 pound 2 ounces flour (Retain some flour for rolling out dough.)
9 ounces butter
2 ounces sugar
2 tablespoons horn salt*
2-1/3 cups milk (about 5 deciliter)

*Horn salt/powder of ammonium bicarbonate; can be purchased at the pharmacy. Horn salt (also harts horn) is used in traditional Norwegian baked goods as a leavening agent. Modern horn salt is ammonium bicarbonate.

Preparation:
Pour milk, and melted butter and sugar over oatmeal.
Blend mixture and let rest for 1 hour in refrigerator.

Blend horn salt and flour and add to mixture.
Mix well and make into dough.
Divide dough into manageable parts and use rolling pin to roll into the thickness of pie crust.

Since this is a large batch, you can half the dough and store in a plastic bag in the refrigerator to bake later.

Use a milk glass to cut out round circles, and use a fork to poke each cracker 3-4 times.

Place on greased cookie sheet and bake in 400�F. preheated oven for 10-12 minutes. Cool completely and store in plastic bags or an airtight container. Norwegian Oatmeal Crackers can be frozen.

You can be creative with you cookie cutters and make fun shapes for the small members of your family.

I am going to make bear shaped crackers for my grandson as soon as he has enough teeth to chew them. So far he has only 5 teeth. He loves his little teddy bears and these "bears" will no only be cute, but delicious to eat.

These Norwegian oatmeal crackers without saturated oils and are healthy and oh so tasty.

To learn about some Norwegian foods, visit Foods of Norway.

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