Martha Stewart's Anzac Biscuits

Martha Stewart's Anzac Biscuits

Ingredients:
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
oats
sugars, granulated
shortening confectionery, coconut (hydrogenated) and or palm kernel (hydrogenated)
butter, without salt
syrup, maple, canadian
leavening agents, baking soda
water, bottled, generic

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 deg F.
Line baking pans with parchment and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl,combine flour, oats, sugar and coconut and set aside.
Over medium heat melt butter with syrup.
Boil water and dissolved soda in it.
Carefully add butter mix to the soda mix-- Watch!
butter is hot and will bubble up.
Mix butter mixture with the dry ingredients, stir well to combine all ingredients.
Divide this dough into three and each third into 12: this way you will get even sized cookies.
Then make firm balls and place on prepared cookie sheets, pressing each ball down with the heel of hand.
Bake at 350 degF for about 15 minutes, until golden brown and firm but not hard.
Transfer to cooling racks.