Syrup-oat Slice

Name: Syrup-oat Slice
Total time: 1800 s
Yield: 12 people
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 250 g butter; 150 ml golden syrup; 100 g sugar; 100 g flaked almond; 50 g milled flax (healthy touch); 2-3 tspn almond essence; 400 g porridge oats; 1 pack short crust pastry; 5 tbsp fruit jam

Matthew Lay @merlin

A childhood treat, slightly enriched from my Mum's recipe, with flaked almonds

Matthew Lay @merlin

A childhood treat, slightly enriched from my Mum's recipe, with flaked almonds

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Ingredients

20-30min

12 people

Filling
250 gbutter
150 mlgolden syrup
100 gsugar
100 gflaked almond
50 gmilled flax (healthy touch)
2-3tspn almond essence
400 gporridge oats
Base
1 packshort crust pastry
5 tbspfruit jam

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Steps

20-30min

1

Heat butter, syrup and sugar in a pan until melted and dissolved. Turn off the heat.
2

Add the almonds and milled flax. Then add the almond essence, and finally the oats. It should be hard to mix once the oats are added, but everything should be combined nicely.
The milled flax seed can be swapped out with more oats.
3

Roll out the pastry to 3-4mm. Cover your 30cm tray and prick the pastry with a fork.
4

Spoon the jam on top of the pastry and spread out evenly over the base
5

Spoon the outs mixture into the base and press gently so to form an even layer
6

Fold the edges of the pastry back over the mixture
7

Bake at the center of the oven at 190 degrees c or 170 fan for 20 to 30-minutes checking to see when the pastry and the topping starts Brown
8

Can be eaten cold, or enjoyed warm with some custard