AUSTRALIAN ANZAC Biscuits

**Author - Alee Venkatesh **




Prep: 5 mins  |  Cook: 15 mins | Makes: 12 pieces

INGREDIENTS - 1 cup self-raising flour, 1 cup oats, 1/2 cup butter, 2 tbs. golden syrup, 3/4 cup sugar.  METHOD - golden syrup & melted butter added to dry ingredients (flour, oats, sugar).  Arranged on a biscuit baking tray and baked in a pre-heated oven at 180 deg. C for 15 minutes


An Anzac biscuit is a sweet, hard tack biscuit, popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter, golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water, and (optionally) desiccated coconut.  Anzac biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I. It has been claimed the biscuits were sent by wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation.  Today, Anzac biscuits are manufactured commercially for retail sale.



ANZAC Day (25th April) - one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. 
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ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as Anzacs, and the pride they took in that name endures to this day.

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For Australians, 25th April is a day of National Remembrance, which takes two forms. Commemorative services are held across the nation at dawn – the time of the original landing, while later in the day, former servicemen and servicewomen meet to take part in marches through the country’s major cities and in many smaller centres. Commemorative ceremonies are more formal, and are held at war memorials around the country. In these ways, Anzac Day is a time at which Australians reflect on the many different meanings of war.