It’s not rain, but today’s humidity is 85 per cent! The 85 per cent humidity, I think, must be the highest (worst?) discomfort index for human beings and I feel the air so heavy. And dark gray clouds in the gray sky look very tired of maintaining their shapes, since they have the rain which is about to fall down. :-\
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Ingredients
1 cup plain flour
1 cup rolled oats (regular oatmeal) uncooked
1 cup desiccated coconut
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 tbsp golden syrup (or honey)
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tbsp boiling water
Method
Combine the flour (sifted), oats, coconut and sugar in a bowl.
Melt the butter and Golden Syrup (or honey) in a saucepan over a low heat..
Mix the bicarbonate of soda with the water and add to the butter and Golden Syrup.
Pour the liquids into the dry ingredients and mix well.
Spoon dollops of mixture, about the size of a walnut shell, onto a greased tin leaving as much space again between dollops to allow for spreading.
Bake in a moderate oven, 180C / 350F, for 15-20 minutes.
Cool on a wire rack and seal in airtight containers.
Tips
The American tablespoon is a little smaller than the British tablespoon, so be generous with your Golden Syrup (or Honey) and Water.
If you have any thoughts of keeping the biscuits for any length of time I suggest you keep them in a padlocked container!
For a little variety you may wish to add 2 teaspoons of ginger spice or even Wattle Seeds, a recent addition but don't ask me where to get them.
Mmmm, ANZAC Biscuits.
Enjoy!
Oreos
*Oh, do you pour tamari on top of your vanilla ice cream? When I played for their "Welcome" reception at the Governor's Mansion many years ago, that's what they served for dessert - vanilla ice cream topped with a splash of tamari. They claimed that it was a Japanese use of their product.
**And it was surprisingly good too.
:)
chocolate covered graham crackers
Sturm und drang at I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT - turns out our set is impossible to light and paint. Who would have thunk such a thing? And so the people I asked in MARCH to help me but they couldnt' commit to the project are now telling me it has to be redone. Cousin Brad the set builder is NOT happy - and I am not so excited myself.
So there will be drama AGAIN today - offstage. Oh well.
And even though we are firing a 12 gauge shotgun filled with blanks TWICE during the show, have a strobe light, three people end up dead including one with a hatchet in his back, a dug-up dead body hanging in the doorway. AND incest - I am sure we will get a letter from someone complaining because someone lit a cigarette onstage.
And speaking of sturm und drang... Some very interesting developments on some "special interest" websites today.
:-\
And here's a recipe from http://www.aussieslang.com
ANZAC Biscuits....
So, Jose (or anyone), what's "desiccated coconut"?? Sounds disgusting! ;)
Jose, are you talking about the Andrew Sullivan column in the Advocate to which Michelangelo Signorile (another Gay columnist) responded? Or is there something else going on?
And you're obviously not going to tell us what it is, are you, young man ;)
Soy sauce is great for taking stains out!
???
Do you just keep pouring it on until the soy sauce covers the stain?
;)
Ah, yes. I had read about that yesterday. I didn't realize it was taking effect so soon.
DR Jose, that is funny!
Actually I could use something to get out a stain. :(
Only problem is it does not seem to be a new stain. It looks like mustard or something. And it's on my Mamma Mia shirt. I just keep spraying it and rubbing. Hopefully the stain will at least lighten enough so i can wear it!
Or you could just buy a new one when you go to see the show later on!
:)
Or just buy sequins to cover up the spot.
DR. Jane said yesterday;D
Also in the news today, not so good for me but appropriate for our TOD, is an article on Oregon hazelnut growers. They want hazelnuts to become a staple.
I think they would make a better paper clip
Cookies are called biscuits in OZ.
Favourite - chocolate coated Teddy Bear Biscuits. (DR Jose may have tried those).
Home made biscuits: and Gingernuts (Made with Golden Syrup and Powdered ginger). Would the recipes translate?
What about the rest of us? Should we ALL check our e-mails?There's this new regulation pushed by our Nazi government, 2257, that is an insult to free speech and personal liberty. It's aimed primarily at the Adult Entertainment Industry, and seems to have been bulldozed into being.
Picked up lots of packages, including Tabitha, which has my actual name on the back cover. Amazing.
"Do You Just Keep Pouring It On Until the Soy Sauce Covers the Stain?" That's the title of my next novel.
Speaking of nutmeats, they were handing out the peanuts on the plane when suddenly the stewardess took all of the packets back from those she'd passed them out to. Why? Because, there was someone on the plane who was allergic to peanuts. Of course, I wondered why that person just didn't EAT the peanuts if they were allergic - why couldn't WE eat the peanuts? It turned out that the very attractive young lady next to me works in a hospital, and she told me that even the smell or dust particles from peanuts could put that person into an attack and that they could possibly even die from it. Who knew?
It's a fancy term for shredded and flaked and dried coconut. Health food stores carry it. The sweetened shredded coconut available in most grocery stores is not the same. Dessicated coconut is not sweetened. However, I have come across recipes for ANZAC Biscuits that call for shredded coconut. I guess it depends upon how sweet you want your biscuits.
I would have thought who didn’t know. Of course, that's because no one probably knew about it....still, I've never heard of anyone actually dying from peanut dust.
DR Elmore3003, is this your buddy John Reardon?
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George, Golden Syrup is a bit like honey in texture but very different in taste. Check out the following:
http://www.britshoppe.com/lylgolsyr.html
Congrats on the new car MattH! What is it?
I also love Christmas sugar cookies that have been iced. Nothing better on the face of the earth!
Is there no other fan of Pepperidge Farms' Chesapeakes?
Well, since this is a family site, I will spare this site the details. In the meantime, check your e-mail.
Now I'M dying of curiousity.
E-mail or Message me, too, please.
:D
Now I'M dying of curiousity.
E-mail or Message me, too, please.
:D
Bed linends washed, dried and put back on the bed.
:-\
Thanks for the museum photos DR's LAURA & SANDRA. Now I want to go - but except to just a museum that don't allow no kids in to get in my way and stand in front of stuff and talk real loud and stuff like that, ya know?
Jane, of course I would be sad. But, that is an extreme case. I'm talking about airplanes and why it hasn't once, in my over three decades of flying, ever been a problem, let alone been mentioned?
Sturm und drang at I'LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT - turns out our set is impossible to light and paint. Who would have thunk such a thing? And so the people I asked in MARCH to help me but they couldnt' commit to the project are now telling me it has to be redone. Cousin Brad the set builder is NOT happy - and I am not so excited myself.
So there will be drama AGAIN today - offstage. Oh well.
And even though we are firing a 12 gauge shotgun filled with blanks TWICE during the show, have a strobe light, three people end up dead including one with a hatchet in his back, a dug-up dead body hanging in the doorway. AND incest - I am sure we will get a letter from someone complaining because someone lit a cigarette onstage.
Mmmmm, cookies. I've been eating chocolate-covered Nutter Butters. I highly recommend them.
I’m trying not to get too involved in today’s topic or I will eat too many cookies and other goodies. My plan is to loose a pound or two before my almond macaroons arrive. :D
Not sure I will succeed since I’m indulging in half an egg bagel with a little butter on it.
Not sure I will succeed since I’m indulging in half an egg bagel with a little butter on it.
George-LOL. Bagels are fattening and so is butter, and so is the ice cream I had this morning and the chocolate mint I ate in the afternoon, and so is the...........
Good Evening!Radioactive Jose. Attention seeking. lol
Greetings from Richmond
-Oh, and a slice of yellow cake with chocolate frosting for dessert.
-Boy does Prime Time TV really suck! :-\
Jose only you would know of two bakeries with almond macaroons. I have been looking for years for some.
http://www.jeanjacquesbakery.com
My guess, the German bakery will be better, however I don’t mind comparing them. :)