In article >,
"J. Clarke" > wrote:

> On 4/21/2010 11:36 PM, zxcvbob wrote:

> > 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.

If you can get your hands on a bottle or tin of Chelsea golden syrup
from New Zealand (one of the places that originated ANZAC biscuits), IMO
it knocks Lyle's weak boring syrup into a cocked hat.

Miche

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