Hokey Pokey

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| Course Type: Desserts

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Recipe Review

My middle school aged son chose Hokey Pokey to make for a school project as a food that comes from New Zealand. The recipe he found online included Lyle's Golden Syrup. It took me a while to find this ingredient locally but we were able to track it down.

When I looked at the recipe he had printed it had no directions - just ingredients. I found this Nigella recipe but it used dark corn syrup instead of golden syrup. There was no way we weren't going to use the golden syrup that we worked so hard to obtain so we substituted the golden syrup for the dark corn syrup.

The resulting candy was not very honey combish. It was more like peanut brittle without the peanuts. Nonetheless, my son is happy with it and plans to bring it to school to share with his classmates.

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Comments

Queezle_Sister - 11th January 2013
I had to find Lyle's golden syrup for this dessert. It was difficult to find, but oh so delicious!

I love it when kids cook - and I appreciate teachers who give assignments to cook at home! Bravo for your son.

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BethNH - 11th January 2013
Oooh, that sounds really good!

The Ducks Guts - 11th January 2013
Hi Beth, the Hokey Pokey sounds good, glad to hear that your son's school is teaching cooking :-) Golden syrup doesn't go off, but in Australia it mostly seems to be used for Golden Syrp Dumplings if you were wondering how to use up the rest of the tin. We love them in winter, not diet food! http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/6557/golden+syrup+dumplings looks close to the recipe we use, except use ordinary salted butter and the syryp is just 1 1/2 cups water, 1/3 cup golden syryp and 1 1/2 tablespoons butter. No castor sugar and only sometimes the lemon juice. I bake them at 190 C for 20 - 30 mins, makes a lighter softer dumpling. Put the raw dumpling mix in a baking dish and pour the syrup over the dumplings. Very easy recipe.

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BethNH - 11th January 2013
Thank you! We will definitely check out the Golden Syrup Dumplings. They sound yummy!

Queezle_Sister - 11th January 2013
What a good idea for my leftover golden syrup, too! Thanks ducks guts!

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