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You may remember me previously bemoaning my inability to make a good flapjack. They taste good (great, even) but never fail to fall to bits – or they are so hard as to extract teeth. When Mia came to visit she and Maggie made flapjacks that were very tasty and nearly stayed together, kick-starting my quest again. They were good, but definitely towards the thin and chewy end of the flapjack scale (for reference: 3 oz butter, 3 oz brown sugar, 4 oz oats and 10 min at 180 C* I think, perhaps Mia will correct me if I am wrong. She blamed their slight crumbliness on me having the wrong sort of sugar.) What I really want is thicker and chewier, and last night I made it! (Hoorah, I hear you cry.) As follows:

Melt 8 oz butter and stir in 8 oz brown sugar (soft rather than demerara). Beat in an egg then add some nutmeg, 10 0z porridge oats and 4 oz sultanas. Push into greased (and lined) tin and bake for an hour at 150 C.

I know you are dying to know the secret and I believe it is this, as explained by Mia: no golden syrup (and the egg probably helps). I am going to revisit my delicious yet intractable apple flapjack recipe later,  and see if I can persuade it to stick together.

*One hundred and eighty what? Elephants?

3 Responses to “‘Jacks”

  1. Mia
    November 11th, 2008 17:18
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    It WAS the wrong type of sugar! For my purposes that was, not just generally wrong. It turned out too…I don’t know…treacley-tasting, using the dark brown stuff. Anyway. I’m glad you’ve finally found a recipe that works for you – I’m surprised by the addition of egg and APPALLED by the addition of sultanas (my very worst thing ever in cooking to be honest) but if you guys like it then that’s excellent. I know how much it was bugging you, you little domestic goddess you.

  2. LisaD
    November 12th, 2008 16:09
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    Ohhhhh! I was following a Nigella recipe that called for golden syrup and it fell apart like soggy granola! I’m going to try it again with sugar. Thanks!

  3. LisaD
    September 17th, 2011 14:19
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    Well look at this, I never followed up on my last comment and obviously never did try your recipe! This time, I promise to try it. Honest. Truly. (and thank you)

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