Eastington@Paddington

from Country Women’s Association Classics: Over 400 Favourite Recipes (page 569) by Country Women’s Association of Australia

• rolled oats, desiccated coconut, unrefined sugar, salt
• boiling water, butter, golden syrup, and bicarbonate soda

Simple, quick and addictive. Salty caramel flavour.

I found it easier to press the contents into a food mould, rather than try and shape the biscuit.

Last year I made the below version with treacle (which resulted in a darker biscuit)

Recipe online: https://www.feedmethat.com/recipe.php?id=13515.html

Source: The Down Under Cookbook c. 1987 Graeme Newman, Albany, New York. converted from his mother’s handwritten cookbook

•   Caster sugar
•   Treacle

•   Butter
•   Baking soda
•   Coconut, flaked
•   Oatmeal
•    Plain flour
•    Boiling water

A lot darker than I remember from my youth.