Are rolled oats and oatmeal the same

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am making Parkin for haloween party tomorrow. Recepie states oatmeal but I only have porrage oats. Are they the same

If you can't get oatmeal, I'd whizz the porridge oats in a food processor or blender as oatmeal is finer grain rather than flakes.

I use rolled oats in my parkin and it comes out lovely. If the oatmeal is too fine you might as well call it gingerbread. Just avoid using 'instant' oats

same thing to my American ears
Instant oats are something else, though.

spooky - I've had exactly the same oatmeal/oats parkin problem this week. Nigella says you can blitz porridge oats in a food processor to get rough oatmeal, although it's apparently a different thing. In the end I made two versions to see if there was a difference, and actually the one with whole oats was nicer - although, even after leaving them to mature for five days, both were much drier and crumblier than the Parkin of My Youth. Suspect more treacle is needed (it was a Delia recipe and she's always a bit parsimonious with key ingredients like booze.)

Which recipe have you got?