Flapjack Facts – Oats

Flapjacks are mainly made from oats.  The early history of oats is obscure, but domestication is considered to be recent compared to that of the other grains–perhaps c.2500 During the Bronze Age, the time when horses were first used as draft animals, oats were widely grown in N Europe but were apparently still uncultivated by the civilizations around the Mediterranean.

Flapjacks in the morning

This morning I’m eating a toffee flapjack with my mid morning coffee – toffee and coffee what a combination

Flapjacks and coffee

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning coffee break?

Here are is a fact that you might not have known about coffee to consider as you enjoy your coffee and flapjack this morning.   Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the world.  The only world commodity that is traded at higher volumes on the world market is oil.

Flapjack Facts – Oats

Oats are a cereal grain used primarily as food for livestock, especially horses. In Oklahoma most of the oats planted are used for either pasture or baled for hay. Most goes to feed the state’s equine population.

Flapjacks and Tea

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning tea break?  Here are is a fact that you might not have known about tea to consider as you enjoy your tea and flapjack this morning.

Tea was so important and valuable in the 1850s that special sailing ships, called Clippers, were built to bring the tea to Britain from China as fast as possible – the most famous being the Cutty Sark.

Flapjacks and Tea

Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning tea break?  Here are is a fact that you might not have known about tea to consider as you enjoy your tea and flapjack this morning.

The first written record of tea drinking occurs in 350 AD.

Say it with Flapjacks?

Say it with flapjacks instead?

We have just had an order from a recruitment company who had a rather novel idea for making their newly placed member of staff welcome on their first day in their new job.  They ordered a mixed box of flapjacks from us to be sent to the new member of staffs office.  They were addressed to her with the instruction that it might be an idea to give out a flapjacks or two to each member of her news team.

We were happy to help put and the flapjacks went down well in the office and help to establish her a a new member of the team.

We’ve not heard about using flapjacks as a team building tool before but there is a first time for everything