A superb Georgian Welsh oat-cake peel or slice.  Made from ash which has a wonderful colour and surface. With stylised heart shaped handle.

Carmarthenshire c1800

18” long x 9” wide x ¾” deep / 45.7cm long x 22.8cm wide x 1.9cm deep

£650.00

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Oat cakes were part of the staple diet in many parts of Wales, the peel or slice was used for turning the oat cakes on a bakestone.

The following is from “Life and Tradition in Rural Wales” by J. Geraint Jenkins, Alan Sutton publishing 1976

“In the diet of country people oats were important, and oatmeal formed the basis of numerous dishes, such as llymru, uwd, bwdram as well as oatcakes.

The equipment necessary for making oatcakes consisted of a rolling pin (although in some areas it was believed that better oatcakes were made if the rolling out were done with the palm of the hand, or the bare forearm); a wooden slice (rhawlech) for turning oatcakes on the bakestone; and a wooden or metal rack (diogyn or car bara ceirch) for drying the oatcakes in front of an open fire.”