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Dear Annie
DATE AND WALNUT FLAPJACK
This is a brilliant recipe from my good friend Dawn Roads at Aga, who is a brilliant cook and source of all sorts of scrummy Aga recipes. I have also used it substituting the dates and walnuts with chopped dried apricots and that works well too. Some flapjack recipes include half a teaspoon of ground ginger which is useful to ring the changes but this recipe works brilliantly without, but by all means try this addition sometime.
9 oz (250g) butter
9 oz (250g) light brown sugar
9 oz (250g) golden syrup
1 lb 2 oz (500g) rolled oats
4 oz (115g) chopped dates
3 oz (75g) walnut pieces
Melt the butter in a large pan on the Simmering Plate with the golden syrup and sugar. When warm and melted stir in the remaining ingredients. This quantity fills the large Aga baking tray perfectly and the Bake-O-Glide cooking liner fits this perfectly. Bake on a grid shelf on the floor of the Roasting Oven with a cold plain shelf on the second set of runners above until evenly golden, for 25-35 minutes on a 2 oven Aga. For a 3 or 4 oven Aga bake in the Baking Oven on the lowest set of runners. Whilst still warm mark out into fingers or squares using only a table knife as this is strong enough to accomplish this but not sharp enough to damage the Bake-O-Glide (don`t use a kitchen knife or you can easily damage the liner irrevocably). When cooled they will be solid enough to break up and cool on a wire tray.
Store in an airtight tin.
Enjoy!
Best wishes
Richard Maggs
THE AGA COOKERY DOCTOR
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