Chewy biscuits school pudding

[alisonhughes]

Hi I wonder if anyone has the recipie for the chewy biscuits that you used to get at school they had a cherry on top and were served with strawberry custard Thanks I really crave them at the moment

[the.fee.fairy]

Can you give any more description? I'm thinking you might mean shortbread, but that's not chewy.

[battybird]

My mum used to be a school cook, I think the biscuits you are talking about are what they called oat cookies. The recipe I have is for 100 (comes from the typed school dinner recipe book she gave me!) so you MIGHT have to reduce it but is as follows:
1lb soft flour (?SR)
1lb rolled oats
1lb castor sugar
1lb marge
1/4 oz bicarb
1oz baking powder
5oz golden syrup
1 egg (optional)
Cream marge & sugar. Add dry ingredients, mix syrup with egg. mix all together. form 100 balls . Bake in moderate oven allowing room for spreading. 15-20 mins
No cherry...but you could put one on after! Hope they satisfy the cravings

[Big Al]

http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/che ... al-cookies

could these be the same things?