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Flapjacks (Traditional Scottish Recipe)

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, easy, recipes for dessert, recipes using butter, recipes using golden syrup, recipes using light brown sugar, recipes using margarine, recipes using oat, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings, scottish

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AFlapjacks_%28Traditional_Scottish_Recipe%29)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AFlapjacks%20%28Traditional%20Scottish%20Recipe%29&oldid=4516980

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 75 g butter or margarine
  • 50–75 g light brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon golden syrup
  • 175 g porridge oats

Directions

  1. Put the butter or margarine, sugar, and golden syrup into a saucepan, and stir over a low heat until the fat and sugar have melted.
  2. Add the porridge oats and blend thoroughly.
  3. Press into a well-greased 18 cm square sandwich tin.
  4. Bake in the centre of a moderate oven at 180°C (350°F / gas mark 4) for 25 minutes or until evenly golden brown.
  5. Cut into rectangles in the tin whilst warm.
  6. Allow to become almost cold in the tin before removing.
  7. Enjoy!

Notes

Replace the sugar and golden syrup with 75 g of honey.

Add 50 g of raisins.