Thursday, March 10, 2011

Perfect flapjacks

Despite a wholesome reputation the flapjack is a hymn to butter and sugar. But should they be crunchy or chewy?Flapjacks are defiantly uncool. Unlike the hipster whoopie pie, or the faintly glamorous sounding tiffin, they smack of battered tins of Family Circle, wet walks, and muddy match teas. This presumably goes some way to explain how they've developed a peculiarly wholesome reputation, despite being a cheerful riot of butter and sugars, with a few oats chucked in as a sop to nutrition. Still, I'm not complaining ? life can't be all fancy macarons, and it's good to have a few things in your repertoire robust enough to survive being hoisted up a hill in an anorak pocket.This very portability has been the flapjack's downfall in recent times however ? it's the cellophane-wrapped stalwart

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