Hokey Pokey 3

As last time, but only 150g of flour. Dough was a bit soft for comfortably rolling into balls, so I just dropped spoonfuls on the tray.

Tasted similar, slightly stronger hokey pokey flavour...

Hokey Pokey Biscuits Mk II

75g butter
50g sugar

50g Golden syrup
50g Milk

1tsp baking soda

175g flour

Cream butter and sugar
Warm milk and golden syrup, add baking soda and stir
Add syrup mixture to butter and sugar
Add flour
Roll into balls, flatten with a fork

Bake 10 minutes

The original recipe tasted quite buttery. This variation is more cakey, and with more hokey pokey flavour. Nice but still not the texture I'm looking for. Next time, less flour (maybe 150g)

Hokey Pokey Biscuits

Years ago we had a family recipe for hokey pokey biscuits. They were gooey and delicious, and totally unlike any other hokey pokey biscuit I've ever tried. I think I vaguely recall hearing that the recipe originated from a copying error, which could explain the difference.

Every now and then I try to recreate something like I remember. So when I noticed that the recipe in the older Edmonds we have had 30% less flour than the 1976 version, and was otherwise identical I had to give it a try.

The result was a light buttery biscuit, with a hint of hokey pokey. Tasty, but not what I was hoping for. I will try again with double the golden syrup and see what that gives me. Or maybe use brown sugar instead of white... Plenty of options to try, anyway.

A Bit of Crumpet

The recipe for today is the crumpet recipe from the Edmonds Cookbook (1976). I've never made crumpets, so I was guessing slightly about the consistency - the recipe calls for a 'fairly thick batter'.

I made a half batch, and I left it to rise for longer than the stipulated hour because it's not particularly warm today. I found the frying temperature was quite finicky - too hot or cold and they turned into yeasty pikelets. I think a slightly runnier batter would have been better too.

I definitely want to try them again, they tasted pretty good, even if most of them weren't amazingly crumpet-like.

No photos, we scoffed them all for lunch.

Oat-banana muffins

A couple of weeks ago I tried this recipe. I don't have a big blender so I just used fine ground oatmeal.

I failed at taking photos, unfortunately. They looked kind of like oaty muffins.

They were a little stodgy, but I was half expecting that. I'm not sure if using a blender would help with that. The flavour was nice, if mild. I think they would be fabulous with added blueberries, and may have to try that in blueberry season.