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anzac recipe
April 21, 2005
for my reference as much as anyone's, this was the recipe I used.
Ingredients
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup plain flour (ie no raising agents)
1 cup sugar (white or half white, half brown)
3/4 cup dessicated coconut
4 oz / 125g butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 tablespoon boiling water
Method
sift flour and mix with sugar, oats and coconut.
Melt butter and golden syrup together in saucepan. when well combined, stir bicarb into boiling water, then add to butter mix.
Add everything to dry ingredients, mix well.
For 1 tablespoon sized cookies (Recipe makes 12) bake for 20 mins at 140 degrees fan forced, 160 degrees not fan forced.
Cool for five minutes on baking tray before moving to cooling rack.
Variations!
Bake a tiny bit less (and I would venture, add a little more water, say two teaspoons) if you want them soft, a teeny bit more if you want them crispy. In fact I'd add the extra water no matter what - these stayed kind of round as there was not enough liquid to hold the mixture together if squished flat..
And you could add stuff too!
(added later)
Made these a few days later with a little extra water and half white/half brown as opposed to all white the first time. They came out TOTALLY different, so I must have done something else differently the first time - SR flour instead of plain perhaps?
Michael liked the first batch best, I thought the last batch were the best. Made a batch using a different recipe in between, main difference was more oats, they were good but the worst of the three lots! Nonetheless they were all super good and loved by those who munched on em, so this is a keeper of a recipe!
Posted by lee_taylor at April 21, 2005 01:45 PM