Mum's Picnic Chocolate Cookies

125gm butter
50gm sugar
3 tsp condensed milk
175gm sr flour
50gm chopped dark chocolate


Cream butter and sugar together, add remaining ingredients and roll into small balls. Flatten with a fork, bake 20 mins at 180.

Best to double recipe.

Mums Shortbread

1/2 lb butter (I use the regular kind. Butter needs to sit at room temperature for a while to be soft enough- not oily though.)
3/4 cup caster sugar
2 and 1/2 ounces cornflour
10 ounces of plain flour
1/4 teaspoon salt

Cream butter and sugar and then add in remaining ingredients. Mix well.
Turn out onto a long strip of greaseproof paper. Shape into a log and cut into 40 pieces.
Bake in a cool oven (160 C) for approximately 25 minutes until golden. (They brown up more after they are removed so be careful.) Cool on a wire rack.

Anzac Biscuits

1 cup plain flour
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup desiccated coconut
1 cup sugar
a pinch of salt
125gm unsalted butter
3 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Into a mixing bowl place:
plain flour
rolled oats
desiccated coconut
sugar
salt

Into a saucepan place:
unsalted butter
golden syrup

Stir over a low heat until this has melted.
Put 2 tbsp boiling water into a cup and stir in bicarbonate of soda.
Add to the melted butter mixture – it will froth up.

Add this mixture to the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
Drop spoonfuls of mixture onto baking paper – allow room for biscuits to spread.
Bake 12-15 minutes at 180 degrees and allow to dry well on a rack.
Store in an airtight container.