Its a baking day today, the wind is howling, the grey sky looks threatening and young chef Daisy is here to assist. “Lets make some cookies, Daisy”. ” BISCUITS” comes the cry from a nearby room, ” not cookies”. One way to ruffle Mr Tranquillo’s feathers is to use American terminology, especially in front of children. Australian linguistic traditions are slowly disappearing, and the lovely word biscuit is under threat. “Ok, OK, biscuit, biscotti, whatever.” I know he is right.
These yummy biscuits are similar to Anzacs but are softer and uglier like Brutti ma Buoni, my favourite Italian biscotto. They are simple and quick to make, and store well.
The recipe
- 1 and 1/4 cups plain flour
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 3/4 cup castor sugar
- 1/2 cup sultanas
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries, or chopped dried apricots, or other dried fruit.
- 150 gr unsalted butter, melted
- 2 Tb Golden Syrup
- 1 Tb water
- 1/2 teas bi-carb soda
Method
Preheat the oven to 180c or a little less for fan forced.
Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Melt the butter with the golden syrup and water in a small saucepan. Add the bicarb soda to this wet mixture. Stir briefly then add to the dry mix. Roll into balls and place on two long biscuit baking sheets lined with non stick paper. Leave on tray for 5 minutes, then move to cooling rack.
Bake for around 18 minutes in the centre of the oven or until golden brown.
Variations include adding chopped macadamias and so on, keeping the proportions the same.
ALMOST ITALIAN 
These look lovely and chunky! And I’ve started to use cookie because it seems a bit confusing to readers from overseas. But I have a friend who staunchly resists and calls them biscuits 😛
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These look fantastic, bet they taste lovely. I love the various fruits and nuts in the mix!
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Hi,
I am new here to your blog. They look yummy. Oh and what’s wrong with being bi-lingual. 😉 biscuits or cookies or biscotti.
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Thanks Erika.Bi-lingual is good, tri-lingual even better.
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Common language with totally different meanings.
Cookies, biscuits
Chips, crisp
To add to the confusion, lets have fish and chips!.
Grin
Happy holiday season
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Even I call them biscuits now 🙂
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Hahah, that was such an old post, I’m almost too scared to look at it.
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You are still showing through nicely in your older posts, Francesca.
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Beautiful biscuits. Do you think it matters if the rolled oats have been around for a while. I know Italian cooking is about being fresh but …
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Rolled oats can go rancid. Use fresh ones if you can and give the old ones to the chooks or boil them up for the dog.
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