For us Aussies (and our Kiwi neighbours), this is our day of remembering those who have fought and died for Australia. It is a day to pause and reflect. And make Anzac biscuits. The Australian War Memorial site gives one history of Anzac biscuits, but I always thought that they are called Anzacs, because they got mailed to the Anzac forces at Gallipoli and the front in the First World War.
My recipe for these yummy biscuits:
4oz/125g butter
1 tablespoon of golden syrup
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
2 tablespoons of boiling water
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup coconut
1 cup plain flour
1/2 cup sugar
Melt the butter and golden syrup in a saucepan over a low heat.
Mix the bicarbonate of soda with the water, and add to the saucepan.
Combine the oats, coconut, flour and sugar, and add the butter mixture to it. Mix to a moist but firm consistency. Drop onto greased baking trays and cook in a slow oven for about 20 minutes.
Enjoy hot or cold, with a cuppa. This Anzac Day I will be jumping back into “Bean’s Gallipoli – The diaries of Australia’s Official War Correspondent“, edited by Kevin Fewster. It is a hard book to read, full of what life was like for those men in all its mud and death.
Lest we Forget.
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