PeterLucas wrote:
>
> Arri London > wrote in :
>
> >
>
> >> >> >> You're just using the wrong damn recipe.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Anzac bikkies come in a variety of 'modes'. Some are crunchy,
> but
> >> >> >> the *real* ones are soft and chewy.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > So is the recipe/link you posted the 'right' recipe? Have only
> been
> >> >> > offered them made by others and have never made them myself.
> Can't
> >> >> > stand any crumbly biscuit regardless of the grain used to make
> >> >> > them.
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Just add a touch more Golden Syrup to make them chewy.
> >> >
> >> > TY might give them a try then, as soon as I get some cane syrup.
> >> > Suppose corn syrup (cheaper and more readily available here in the
> US)
> >> > would work too, although the taste would be different.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I wouldn't use the corn syrup. The Golden syrup is used for taste and
> >> colour.
> >>
> >> http://www.csrsugar.com.au/ViewProduct.aspx?id=9
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_syrup
> >
> > LOL I know what golden syrup is;
>
> I forgot you're an ex-Pom ;-)

LOL not really a Pom at all!

> >corn syrup is a novelty in the UK
> > (where I used to live). However corn syrup here in the US also comes
> in
> > a darker form if colour is what's needed. Of course it won't taste the
> > same. The biscuits themselves won't taste precisely the same anyway,
> as
> > all the ingredients are different from what you'd use.
> >
>
> Oh well, you can only try :-)

Thinking I will TY. My mother likes things with oats in them. Not the
sort of biscuit that can be bought around here very readily.

Miss my 'Jaffa cakes' too. Do you have those down there? There is a
recipe on the net but doesn't have the 'smashing orangey bit' LOL!