Anzac slice

Made Anzac Slice yesterday. It's like an Anzac biscuit but baked tray-wise. It's quite nice, a little like a birdseed bar, and would be good for tramping trips or taking along on a day walk.

1 cup rolled or wholegrain oats
1 cup plain flour
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup dessicated coconut
125grms butter, chopped
2 Tbs Golden syrup
2 Tbs water
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1. Combine oats, sifted flour and mixed spice, sugar and coconut in a large bowl. Mix well

2.Combine butter, golden syrup and water in a medium pan; stir over low heat, without boiling, until butter is melted. Bring to boil, remove from heat, stir in soda.

3. Add syrup mixture to dry ingredients in bowl; mix well.

4, Grease a 20cm x 30cm slice tin; line two opposite sides with baking paper, extending paper 5cm above edge of pan. Press out mixture into pan.

5. Cook in moderately slow oven, 160C for about 35 minutes or until cooked when tested. Cool slice in pan for 5 minutes; transfer on to wire rack to cool.

6. Cut slice into squares.

It's not known whether the original ANZAC biscuits were sent over to the soldiers, or if they were used as fundraisers. They'd probably keep for a while, but long enough to get from NZ to Europe? Maybe in an airtight tin.