Made with rolled oats, coconut, flour, sugar, golden syrup , butter, bicarbonate of soda and water. They are traditionally sold at sporting and other community events, usually smothered with tomato sauce . They have a mild-flavoured white flesh and are usually barbecued, grilled or boiled. Tea made in a metal can, called a billy, over an open fire. The billy has a wire handle and a tight-fitting lid.
Water is brought to the boil, the lid removed and tea added.
The billy is then removed from the fire and tea drunk from metal cups. A tin of either golden syrup or treacle was one of the basics that swagmen used to carry with them. It had many uses like sweetening billy tea, spreading on damper or pouring over puddings. A cup of tea. A basic bread originally made simply with flour and water, kneaded, shaped into a round and cooked in the coals of a fire made on the ground.