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| Found a flapjack recipe |
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| gift |
| 06/24/02 at 04:31:34 |
| [slm] i found a nice flapjack recipe which i used on the weekend - they turned out really great - i still don't know what you guys in the US call them - oatcakes or cereal bars ??? Nutty Chocolate Flapjacks Ingredients 60g/2oz castor sugar 60g/2oz brown sugar 150g/5oz margarine or butter 6oz rolled oats 85g/3oz plain flour 100g/3˝oz chopped nuts of your choice 150g/5oz chocolate, chopped 60g/2oz golden syrup Method 1. Into a large saucepan put the sugar, margarine and golden syrup. 2. Heat the ingredients until they are bubbling and foamy. 3. Remove from the heat and add the flour and oats. 4. Stir until everything is coated. 5. Pour into a shallow square greased cake tin. 6. Press the nuts into the mixture. It is a good idea to turn them so they are coated and they do not burn. 7. Put in oven at 180C/350F/Gas 4 for about 20 minutes or until the flapjack is golden brown. 8. Immediately put small chunks of chocolate on top. The hot flapjack will melt it. 9. Cool and cut into pieces. The great thing about flapjacks is that you can put anything in them. for example instead of chocolate i put in almonds and dried strawberries. to change the recipe all you do is leave out the nuts and chocolate and put in whatever fruit or nuts or things you want to put in. But if you're going to put in a very sweet fruit or something be aware that you might have to adjust the sugar content [wlm] |
| Re: Found a flapjack recipe |
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| M.F. |
| 06/25/02 at 09:24:41 |
| [slm] I think they're called oatmeal bars or granola bars in the US. Flapjacks doesn't sense as a name for them! :P Pancakes you flap (or flip) and they're flappy, but oatmeal bars? flap? jack? ;D;D ;D btw what's golden syrup? Is it corn syrup? Can I use honey instead? |
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| mwishka |
| 06/25/02 at 09:53:00 |
| so, this is what you wanted to make, eh? well, in the US they're not called anything, because there is no regular thing we make like this. the closest name might be "bar cookies" of which those sticky rice krispies things are one, and there are, oh, at least 4 million (5 million?) versions of this kind of dessert-type food, some that you squash into a pan, some that you pour. translations needed (or i'll go look in the australian section of the oxford english dictionary.... a gamble i often take since i don't have any other strictly british translating tool...) castor: assume this is white. does it mean cane, beet, raw, granulated, powdered, superfine, 10X, confectioner's or.....? golden syrup: (same question as MF, i know) is this light maple, dark maple, barbados molasses, light corn syrup, dark corn syrup or.......? hmmmm..... mwishka (sis MF, did not mean to sound so rude about what they might be called in the US. but oatmeal bars and granola bars both tend to more of a batter type cookie that you wouldn't be able to turn over in the pan in order to grease the other side..... sorry for my brusqueness.....) |
| 06/26/02 at 14:03:37 |
| mwishka |
| Re: Found a flapjack recipe |
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| eleanor |
| 06/26/02 at 09:46:47 |
| [slm] hmm interesting questions.. I don't know how well Attia or any other Brit will be able to answer them though... you see Golden Syrup comes in a tin with "golden syrup" written on it. Who knows what it is? It's golden syrup! ;D And castor sugar is the same. It's a really fine powdery sugar which is used for baking or for making jam.. does that help? wasalaam eleanor :-* ps and since when do we need meanings behind names? Flapjacks are as above.. ;D |
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| mwishka |
| 06/26/02 at 14:11:23 |
| sis eleanor! AND sis attia! you buy something in a can which has no ingredients on it and you.........um, consume it!!!!!! :o :o :o :D but, really now sisters, what is it? all you have to do is taste it, or even smell it, and you'll know if it's a maple or corn or sugar cane product.... is it refrigerated? is it possible that it's liquid lecithin? is it QUITE viscous and very dark yellow to almost a tinge of orange or brown? nah, it's probably not.... it's probably one of those "syrup" concoctions they sell in american grocery stores. the ones people put on their pancakes that are mostly light corn syrup (cheap) with either some maple syrup added (expensive) or some artificial maple flavor added (cheap)... so i think castor sugar must be 10X, also called confectioner's or powdered sugar... mwishka heh heh heh...where's that very very scary icon, eh? it could be.......low grade benzene! or old old nitric acid! heeehhheheeeee |
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| eleanor |
| 06/27/02 at 04:05:35 |
| [quote author=mwishka link=board=kabob;num=1024907494;start=0#4 date=06/26/02 at 14:11:23] you buy something in a can which has no ingredients on it and you.........um, consume it!!!!!! :o :o :o [/quote] oh I'm sure it has ingredients on it.. but who could be bothered reading them ::) [quote]but, really now sisters, what is it? all you have to do is taste it, or even smell it, and you'll know if it's a maple or corn or sugar cane product.... is it refrigerated? is it possible that it's liquid lecithin? is it QUITE viscous and very dark yellow to almost a tinge of orange or brown?[/quote] heh? golden mwishka--- goooolden syrup.. means it's golden and very yummmy!!! yum yum... [] wasalaam eleanor :-* ps: If any accommodating Brit has a tin of it in their cupboard, go and see what it is and put mwishka out of her misery :-/ |
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| gift |
| 06/28/02 at 04:50:46 |
| [slm] whew !!! pant!!! just been running to check the ingredients of my golden syrup (only joking ;) ) golden syrup is pure cane sugar syrup - it is almost orangy in colour and taste a bit like toffee yummy :P maybe the closes thing you can get in the states is molasses!!! low grade benzine huh ::) oh and as for flapjacks, its just what we brits call it we call pancakes pancakes :P ;) [wlm] |
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| mwishka |
| 06/28/02 at 10:11:40 |
| hee heeee...so, no benzene, eh? "tastes like toffee" pretty much describes the light molasses we call "barbadks" molasses. (it has other names, too - regional ones. some people just say "light molasses".) um...i prefer blackstrap molasses, mostly! yum -- to me! but it's more almost like licorice, and you can't use one for the other in anything where the flavor is meant to shine through delicately.... i have a recipe for a VERY easy "hot water molasses cake" that maybe i'll put up here. it's a blackstrap cake. barbados (golden syrup..hee heee) could be used for a milder flavor. with blackstrap the cake looks like it's.....chocolate...hee heee mwishka |
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