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Preheat the oven to 180C.
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Melt the butter over a very low heat on the hob, stirring occasionally, and very lightly grease a shallow 23cm baking tin with butter
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When the butter is fully melted, add the syrup and brown sugar and stir until thoroughly mixed in, keeping the pan over a very low heat.
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Next, remove the pan from the heat and stir in the oats a little at a time.
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It's easier to make sure that all the oats are getting well covered if you don't just dump them all in at once, and this reduces the potential for a messy hob too.
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Stir all the oats in, making sure that they're all really well covered with the syrup, butter and sugar blend.
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Tip the mixture out into the greased baking tin, and pack it down hard with the back of a wooden spoon.
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Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes, then raise the temperature to 200C and bake for another 5-10 minutes.
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The flapjacks should now be a fair amount darker on top, but not burned, and the mixture will be quite gooey.
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Remove the tin from the oven, and score lines with a sharp knife to mark out your squares.
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Leave the tin on a heatproof surface to cool for about 10-15 minutes, then cut your squares properly and place on a wire rack to fully cool.
