Keeping our heritage healthy
I’ve always eaten porridge for breakfast. No milk, no sugar, just a few tablespoons of rolled oats cooked in water until it looks, as my family rudely describes it, like sloppy concrete. It sounds simple but I’m quite particular about my oats. Mornflake Oats, milled in Cheshire by 15 generations of the same family firm since 1675, is the brand I recommend. Moving from Northamptonshire to the Budleigh area six years ago I had some difficulty finding a stockist. A supermarket’s own brand was disappointing, with a taste not much better than the cardboard it came in. And then to my great delight and amazement I found what I was looking for: packs of Jumbo Porridge Oats filled from big sacks marked with the Mornflake logo which are regularly delivered from the longest established miller of oats and cereal in the UK to a small shop housed in the oldest building on Budleigh High Street. A plaque outside ...