On 4/21/2010 11:36 PM, zxcvbob wrote:
> On 4/21/2010 9:55 PM, Brian Anasta wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> For those of you on the board who reside Down Under (Australia& NZ)
>> as you would all be aware, this coming Sunday is ANZAC Day. Now I am
>> able to just purchase a box of Anzac Cookies in the local supermarket,
>> but I thought this year I would go to more of an effort and try and
>> make my own at home. I am BY no means a great baker, so I am looking
>> for a fail-proof recipe that will give me cookies which are crunchy on
>> the outside, yet soft and moist on the inside.
>>
>> If anyone out there has a simple yet yummy Anzacs recipe, could you
>> please share it here?!
>>
>> Kind Regards and thank you in advance,
>> Brian
>
>
> It's an oatmeal cookie with coconut, flavored with Lyle's Golden Syrup,
> or an equivalent extra-light colored molasses. And I don't think they
> have any baking soda or other leavening. I had a recipe, but I can't
> find it. I'll see if I can find one that looks right.
>
> Bob

FWIW, I have in my hand an 11 ounce bottle of Lyle's Golden Syrup,
purchased at Stop & Shop in Enfield, CT, today, for the lordly sum of
$3.99. It in the baking aisle right next to the Karo Light. The only
ingredient listed is "cane sugar syrup", nothing else. It's also marked
"do not refrigerate". The flavor is about what one would expect, much
of a muchness with the better grades of non-maple pancake syrup of my
pre-high-fructose-corn-syrup youth, which is to say that it's pretty
good and today even a little bit exotic.

And the oven is warming for ANZAC cookies.