J. Clarke wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Be aware the best are still a little soft in the middle but the outer
has a snap and they sorta melt when eaten
very easy to over bake and make to hard