The 2016 Cuisine Artisan Awards winners have just been announced and local bakery Bonnie Goods has been named a winner for their Edinburgh-inspired Canterbury Linseed Oatcakes.
Grey Lynn-based Morgan Maw, of Bonnie Goods, and her husband Nic, developed a taste for oatcakes during a stint living in Edinburgh. After Morgan baked her first batch of oatcakes to accompany a cheese course at her brother’s 21st, she developed a knack for the goods and continued to sample her efforts with discerning locals in Edinburgh. When the husband and wife duo moved back to New Zealand in 2013, Bonnie Goods was born. From a stall at Parnell’s La Cigale market, Bonnie Goods products are now sold nationwide, RRP $8.00.
The oatcakes are produced by hand in the Bonnie Goods kitchen in Auckland. Morgan mills the oats herself, hand-rolls the oatcakes and cuts them with two seven-arm dough wheels she specially adapted with the help of her father to give the oatcakes a consistent rectangular shape. The judges loved the fact the linseed, which gives the oatcakes a lovely nuttiness, is from Nic’s uncle’s farm in South Canterbury.
