How to make it

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  • Preheat the oven to 210C. Grease a 17cm x 17cm square deep cake tin and dust it liberally with flour. Tear a sheet of aluminium foil that will cover the top of the tin, and leave to one side. Into a large bowl weigh the flour, then rub in the lard until the lumps disappear and the fat is evenly dispersed. Add the bicarbonate of soda and the salt, and toss this through with your fingers.
  • In another bowl weigh the buttermilk and milk, then stir this through the flour until you have a thick paste-like dough. Scrape well down to the bottom of the bowl to make sure all of the dry ingredients are mixed quickly and evenly through the buttermilk. Sprinkle a little oatbran on to the base of the greased and floured tin, then scrape the dough into the tin and sprinkle more oatbran on the top. Pat the dough down lightly so that it sits in an even layer. Then cover the top of the tin with foil.
  • Bake in a preheated 210C oven for 25 minutes, then remove the foil from the top and bake for a further 25 minutes. Remove from the oven, leave to cool in the tin for a minute, then tip out onto a wire cooling rack. Wrap when cool in waxed paper, or freeze in a sealed container.

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    " It was excellent "
    joe1155 ate it and said...
    This sounds really tasty. Kind of like an American style buttermilk bisquit made with whole wheat flour.
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