If you’re looking for an easy ANZAC Biscuit recipe, this is mine. It’s the same one I used when I was a child and is probably the same one (or similar) used back in the days of World War I. This is my easy ANZAC Biscuits in less than 30 minutes recipe.
Today is ANZAC Day, a day all Australians (and New Zealanders) commemorate the day the ANZAC soldiers landed on the beach at Gallipoli, Turkey in 1915 and remember the fallen soldiers (and still serving soldiers) in all conflicts since. We have a day off from school and work and every town and city in Australia marks the occasion with a dawn service at an ANZAC Memorial and a morning march.
Everybody usually makes Anzac Biscuits for ANZAC Day (or any time of the year really). They’re so easy to make and it was thought the women back home baked these biscuits for the soldiers overseas during World War I as they traveled and kept well.
I’m all out of rolled oats so we won’t be making them tomorrow. The above photo is from a previous time I made them. The kids enjoy making them (and eating them). The kids have had their fair share of sweet things for a while. The following is the recipe I use all the time, from my high school Home Economics text book “Day to Day Cookery”.
Anzac Biscuits
1 cup plain flour
1 cup rolled oats
3/4 cup coconut
3/4 cup sugar
140g butter
3 tsp golden syrup
3 tbs boiling water
1 tsp baking soda
Mix dry ingredients. Melt butter in saucepan, add syrup and water. Add baking soda, allow to foam and pour into dry ingredients. Mix well and drop spoonfuls onto baking tray. Allow room for spreading. Bake in a 160 deg C oven until golden brown.
The Ode of Remembrance
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
