A special recipe - ANZAC Biscuits

Today I am sharing one of my favourite and most used recipes with you, my ANZAC biscuit recipe. ANZAC biscuits are chewy-crisp, buttery oatmeal-coconut cookies and the French love them almost as much as we do and they love the history that is associated with them.

Tomorrow New Zealand and Australia will  be commemorating ANZAC day, Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations" and "the contribution and suffering of all those who have served" and the 25th April was the first landing of the Anzacs at Gallipoli during WW1.

Legend has it that wives and mothers would mail ANZAC biscuits  to their soldiers in ANZAC — the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps — because, without eggs and being quite sturdy, they traveled and kept well.

ANZAC biscuits

Ingredients

• 1 cup plain flour
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup coconut
• 125g  unsalted butter
• 2 tbs golden syrup
• 1 tbs water
• 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Method

1. Sift the flour into a bowl. Add the sugar, rolled oats and coconut.

2. Melt the butter in a saucepan, then add golden syrup and water.

3. Stir the bicarbonate of soda into the liquid mixture.

4. Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.

5. Place walnut-sized balls of mixture on a greased tray and bake at 175C for 15-20 minutes.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. Lest we forget.

Leeann x