I came across this on another website - thought at least Mr Duncan would want to give it a go? 
Hobnob Recipe
Ingredients
8oz self-raising flour
8oz sugar
8oz porridge oats
8oz margarine
1tbsp golden syrup
1tbsp hot water
1/2 tsp bic soda
Instructions
Mix the flour, oats and sugar, melt marg, syrup and water in a pan. Stir in bic soda and add to dry mix.
Then mix well and make into smallish balls which you then put on a greased tray and flatten slightly with a fork. Put in the oven at 180 degrees C for 15 mins... and cool on the tray. The aim is to get them golden in the oven not brown.
Clare Newsome is Editor-in-Chief of What Hi-fi? Sound and Vision