Traditional Scottish Oatmeal Oatmeal originated in Scotland centuries ago. It was very different from modern rolled oats, or even the steel-cut oats (pin oats, or pinhead oats) common in Scotland today. Traditionally, a coarse meal was produced by slowly grinding the kernel between two large mill stones. Our Scottish Oatmeal is produced in the same old fashioned way. It's delicious, and has a wonderful texture you just can't get from rolled oats. It also contains all the health giving nutrients of the best quality oats from which it was ground — the germ, the oil and the ... [more]

Traditional Scottish Oatmeal

Oatmeal originated in Scotland centuries ago. It was very different from modern rolled oats, or even the steel-cut oats (pin oats, or pinhead oats) common in Scotland today. Traditionally, a coarse meal was produced by slowly grinding the kernel between two large mill stones.

Our Scottish Oatmeal is produced in the same old fashioned way. It's delicious, and has a wonderful texture you just can't get from rolled oats. It also contains all the health giving nutrients of the best quality oats from which it was ground — the germ, the oil and the fiber.

Eat the Ancient Oatmeal of Scotland and Ireland

Rolled oats, the oatmeal most Americans are familiar with, and steel-cut oats, popular in Scotland and Ireland (referred to there as pin oats, or pinhead oats), you might be surprised to find out are both relatively recent inventions.

Both processes were pioneered, starting in 1875, by an American named Ferdinand Schumacher. His patents and processes were adopted in the U.S. by a new company you may have heard of, Quaker Oats. The technology then quickly spread to mills in Scotland and Ireland.

Before 1875, oatmeal was simply stone ground oats!

Yummy!

Did you grow-up forced to eat a slimy mess of glop your mother called oatmeal? Did you swear-off eating oatmeal forever because you were so traumatized by your experience with that scary oat-goo? This is not that oatmeal! Give it a try! We know you'll like it!