New Zealand Biscuits Recipe

You will need.....       1 heaped tablespoon golden syrup

                               5 oz. butter                            

                               4 oz. castor sugar

                               3 oz. rolled oats

                               2 oz. desiccated coconut

Preparation Time      4 oz. plain flour

15 minutes                2 level teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

 

Cooking Time           

20 minutes               

 

Oven setting           

335ºF; Gas Mark 3     

 

Grease 2 baking trays. Put the syrup, butter and castor sugar into a pan and leave to melt over a low heat. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the dry ingredients. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in a bowl in 1 tablespoon hot water. Add to the other ingredients and leave to cool for a few minutes.

 

Divide into 30 portions, roll into balls and place on the baking trays, leaving plenty of room between each.

 

Bake for about 20 minutes or until the biscuits have browned evenly. Remove from the oven and leave on the baking trays for a few minutes to harden. Cool on a wire tray.

 

 

Quick Tip

 

These biscuits are fun for children to make. They love rolling the balls for mixture before baking, If mum does the weighing out first they are easy to finish, so let these biscuits to be your daughter's first step in cookery.

 

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