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Greg: I would like to know what an Anzac cookie is?

Anzac Cookies!.....We call them Biscuits!....Anzac Bikkys.
Peter,Anzac are the Australian & New Zealand Army Corp. The biscuits got their name from being sent to the soldiers at the front from mums, wives etc back home,starting with the First world war!
A homemade staple in most homes across the continent. My wife ,Andrea, makes them on regular occasions,as did my mum when i was a young fella! Made from 1 cup of rolled oats,3/4 cup dessicated coconut, 1 cup of plain flour,1 cup of sugar,4 oz of butter,2 tablespoons of golden syrup.1 tablespoon of water & 1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda!
Especially at their best when eaten almost strait from the oven!


And that was Greg's Cooking / Australian History class for today!

Thanks Greg. As they must ship well, look forward to my address through PM.

The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps made their reputation as part of the disastrous Churchill-inspired Dardenelles landing in 1915 in Turkey. ANZAC day is still the official holiday when Australia and NZ remember their war dead.

"Cookie" is an Americanism which now self-respecting Antipodean would be caught dead using. The correct word is "biscuits".

The biscuits may bear an ancestral relationship to Scottish oat biscuits via the southern parts of NZ where there were a high ratio of Scottish immigrants in the 19th century (Dunedin and Invercargill).

There are many different recipes for ANZAC biscuits, and Greg has posted one. They are simple to make. Often recipes come down through families.The one my wife makes involves oats, raisins, & golden syrup (the closest US equivalent is molasses). Never coconut! Cooked well, they have a delicious, chewy consistency and, having oats in them, are filling. Just the thing to take on a tramp (US=hike).

gregga41 wrote:Anzac Cookies!.....Especially at their best when eaten almost strait from the oven!:D

What, no vegimite

Possibly, Jeff.......... after a huge night out us Aussies will often eat anything!!

ozover50 wrote:Possibly, Jeff.......... after a huge night out us Aussies will often eat anything!!

Out of desperation?

You have to eat the Anzac biscuits while they are hot.

Once they cool down they become so hard they break your teeth !!!

chai-man wrote:The one my wife makes involves oats, raisins, & golden syrup (the closest US equivalent is molasses).

In the U.S. they'd be known as Oatmeal Raisin cookies.

jps wrote:

ozover50 wrote:Possibly, Jeff.......... after a huge night out us Aussies will often eat anything!!

Out of desperation?

Usually!

Over here a favourite late night snack on the way home from a drinking session is a souvlaki or a falafel from one of the many food vans parked in gas stations.

No vegemite in them!!

I have it from an unimpeachable authority that the universally correct term is cookie!

What do Aussies call these things?:


Now let's not get started on aluminum, I ran out of visual aids.

If they're what I think they are, Kira, we call them scones. Lovely with strawberry jam, whipped cream and a nice cuppa!

We pronounce "scone" like "John", though, not "Joan"...

Except when we're talking about a town in NSW though, Mark.............

They're the american old-fashioned homemade version of scones, a bit heavier and smaller than the bakery scones we get here. And equally lovely with your spread of choice, or dunked in eggs or gravy. That's what we call biscuits. Some people bake them in cupcake pans while others just pour 'em onto a tray. Oh, I could go on...
Here is a muffin:

here's some dinner rolls:

this is a cupcake (they're sweet):

sticky buns ditto:

cinnamon rolls:

and last but not least the bone of contention: oatmeal cookies

Gosh I'm getting hungry, 'scuse me...