>> Sounds like HOECAKES to me, , , , ,
>> Bread cooked on a hoe over a charcoal fire.???
> Didn't the Scots marauders in the Border Wars toast their oatcakes
> on the shields?

Froissart said the Scots soldiers of his time (when were these
"Border Wars" you allude to?) carried iron griddles. Easier to
carry than a shield, and surely only the more elite ranks would
have had shields anyway.

This is quite a different technique from the ash cookery the
original poster was talking about.

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