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I like my flapjacks:they are reliably golden,
buttery and slightly chewy.
My mother's flapjacks are much more exciting:sometimes they are sticky as tar
and sometimes they are hard as rock.
You never know if your teeth will survive
and I have learned to be cautious.
MissM has the careless optimism of youth:"Once you have a taste for them
Grandma's flapjacks are curiously addictive...
I think it is the element of danger..."
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Can it be that I have never tasted a flapjack?
ReplyDeleteYes. Yes it can.
Your flapjacks - both yours and your mother's - sound much more fun than mine, since "flapjacks" where I live are pancakes by another name. Although my "pancakes" may well be something much more exciting over there as well...I'm getting confused!
ReplyDeleteIt used to be just the same at my Grannies. Flapjack roulette!
ReplyDeleteHappy memories.
Could you possibly post the recipe? I'm with blackbird, I don't think I've ever had one here in Ozz...are they like muesli bars or pancakes?
ReplyDeleteWhat Bb said ...
ReplyDeleteMy flapjacks are like your mother's........... I think it's to do with the syrup .........
ReplyDeleteNow I'll have to make some today. That's the power of suggestion. I'll let you know if my fillings survive.
ReplyDeleteExtreme baking! Love it.
ReplyDeleteWith my teeth in an advanced state of fragility, I'll go for your flapjacks, I think. Post the recipe, do!
ReplyDeleteBoth sounds wonderful, mine are either too dry or fall apart - so I don't make them very often. At risk of blaming my tools, I think my current oven doesn't help as it sort of cooks with steam. Daughter's are definitely superior. How can something so relatively simple with few ingredients have such variation?
ReplyDeleteI like Miss M's adventurous approach!
I like the element of surprise with flapjacks I like to fool by throwing in a layer of fruit or disguised nuts.
ReplyDeleteHowever I can't imagine never having tasted them the deprivation!
If it's extreme cooking you want, I can tell you a few tales about my grandmother's rissoles.
ReplyDeleteI always seem to burn mine... AND they fall apart... so, what's the secret?
ReplyDeleteHa, I think I may have your mother's touch in the flapjack department. It is no bad thing, one half my family likes them tooth threateningly brittle and the other half like them soft and chewy. I please 50% of us with each batch.
ReplyDeletedoes anyone remember the rissoles from "The Happiest Days of Your Life" with Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford and Joyce Grenfell ? I think that they were made by the girls school for the boys school
ReplyDeleteMissM sounds as though she is daunted by very little in life - least of all a flapjack.
ReplyDeleteGreat. Now I want a flapjack and there are none to be found.
ReplyDeleteWould you be willing to share your golden, buttery, slightly chewy recipe? Flapjacks are G's favorite but I haven't had much success...
ReplyDeleteK x
I made them only once and they didn't 'gel' at all...
ReplyDeletewe ate them with a spoon... (and a little cream...)