This recipe is straight from the Country Women’s Association cookbook.
Ingredients: half a cup sugar, 1 cup flaked oatmeal, 125g melted butter, 1 tbspn golden syrup, 1 cup coconut, 1 cup flour, 1 level tspn bicarb soda, 2 tbspns boiling water.
Preheat the oven to 190 – 200 degrees C. Mix all the dry ingredients together, pour in the melted butter, add soda and syrup dissolved in boiling water, and mix well. Drop in small pieces on an oven tray (as they melt out to become large biscuits) and bake for 20 minutes.