Apple & Flaxseed Oat Drop Scones
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Ingredients
- 60 g (½ cup) rolled oats, blitzed to a coarse flour (use gluten-free-labelled oats if you are avoiding gluten cross-contact)
- 2 tbsp (14 g) ground flaxseed (linseed)
- 1 small sweet apple, approx. 120 g, peeled, cored and finely grated
- 1 medium egg
- 80 ml (⅓ cup) whole pasteurised milk
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp (5 ml) rapeseed or olive oil, for the pan
Method
- 1. Blitz the oats to a flour, then stir in the ground flaxseed and cinnamon.
- 2. Beat the egg with the milk, pour into the dry mix and fold in the grated apple.
- 3. Rest the batter for 5 minutes — the oats and flax will thicken it to a soft dropping consistency.
- 4. Wipe a non-stick pan with the oil and set it over medium-low heat.
- 5. Drop a scant 3 tbsp of batter per scone into the pan and spread each to about 9 cm across and 1 cm thick — big enough that you can cut finger-length strips from it. The batter makes about seven.
- 6. Cook for 3 minutes a side over medium-low heat, until risen, golden and set right through; break the first one open to check there is no wet batter in the middle, and give the rest another minute a side if there is.
- 7. Cool on a rack, then cut into strips or pieces to suit your baby's stage.
- 8. Store in the fridge for 2 days, or freeze layered between sheets of parchment and defrost fully before serving.
How to serve by age
6–8 months
Cut each 9 cm scone into three strips: the two centre strips are about 8–9 cm long and two adult fingers wide, which is what a whole-hand (palmar) grasp can clamp with an end poking out above the fist to chew. Save the short curved edge pieces for the 9–12 month tray. The strip should bend and squash rather than snap.
9–12 months
Tear or cut the scones, edge pieces included, into 1 cm pea-sized pieces scattered across the tray, which forces baby to pick up each piece with the pincer grasp (thumb and forefinger) instead of raking a handful.
Paediatric note
Flaxseed must be ground: whole seeds pass through the gut intact and their ALA is never released. Oats also bring non-haem iron and soluble fibre, and rotating oat-based breakfasts in place of rice cereal helps limit an infant's cumulative exposure to inorganic arsenic.
Source guidance: https://www.who.int/health-topics/complementary-feeding
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