My friend Gilly is just so much fun. I knew her when she was still a parent, before she became a valued teaching assistant. She' supposed to be in charge of Healthy Eating at school, and she does a marvellous job. She has been expertly running the school cookery club for years. This flapjack recipe is the best - and, I have discovered, the most foolproof (I have a long history of failed flapjack, which sounds like a contradiction in terms but in my case isn't).
I've messed it around a little, but the first four measurements are accurate and essential. Leave out the flour for a crisper end product. As for the dried fruit... hmm, could even add chocolate. Or nuts. Or all kinds of seeds....
Ingredients
125g (4oz) butter
125g (4oz) sugar
125g (4oz) (6 tablespoons) golden syrup
225g (8oz) porridge oats
60g (2 oz) self raising flour
70g (2oz) sultanas or raisins or possibly even any other kind of dried fruit. Who knows?
25 - 50g sunflower seeds.
Melt first three ingredients gently together. DO NOT BOIL. Stir into remaining ingredients, mix well.
Put the mixture into a greased baking tray, pressing down evenly with the back of a spoon or the flat of a wet hand.
Bake at 160 degrees C for 15 - 20 minutes until golden brown around the edges.
Cut into squares while still warm. Leave to cool, then mark out squares again and ease out of the tin. It will be deliciously sticky and glue-like.
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