anzac biscuits

ANZAC day is coming up, so what better time to be making ANZAC biscuits (although any time is a good time really.)

ANZAC biscuits are a traditional Australian biscuit from WW2 when the recipe was created for wives and mothers who would send these biscuits to their soldiers in Europe. The biscuits needed to be something that wouldn’t spoil during the long trip to Europe and that were inexpensive to bake (with war time rationing).

ANZAC biscuits are still a favourite today. A great overview of the history of ANZAC biscuits can be found here.

My recipe comes from my father. I think it’s a pretty standard recipe from an old commonsense cookbook.

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F). Grease a baking tray.
2. Melt the butter and golden syrup in a saucepan over low heat.
3. Dissolve the bicarb soda in the boiling water and add to the butter mixture.
4. Sift in the flour and salt. Add the coconut, sugar, rolled oats and vanilla. Stir to combine.
5. Drop lumps of mixture onto the baking tray (or roll into balls) and bake for 17minutes. Cool on trays.

Numbers will depend on the size of the biscuit that you make. They will spread slightly when cooking.

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