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It should be no surprise there is a trans-Tasman dispute over which country — Australia or New Zealand — created the ANZAC biscuit
An Australian Dept Veteran’s Affairs (DVA) booklet claims
“During the First World War, people on the home front often sent parcels to the Anzacs to show their support. many of these packages included biscuits made from rolled oats, coconut, golden syrup and flour, which had high nutritional value and kept well while being transported overseas. These biscuits have come to be known as Anzac biscuits and are still popular in Australia today.”
“The Anzac biscuit is more than 100 years old so many recipe variations exist.
Ingredients
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons boiling water
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup desiccated coconut
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup plain flour
Method
1. Heat oven to 160°C.
2. Melt butter (or margarine) and syrup.
3. Add dissolved bicarbonate of soda and water.
4. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, add the liquid mixture and stir.
5. Place small balls of the mixture (about 1 teaspoon) onto a greased tray.
6. Bake for 20 minutes or until lightly brown.
7. Lift biscuits onto a cake cooling rack and wait for them to cool.”
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Wikipedia tells us that, for a while, the name ANZAC BISCUITS was used for a range of different recipes, ingredients sometimes including eggs, raisins, oats, coconut, or even jam
There are now restrictions on the use of the name ANZAC, and the name ANZAC BISCUIT
what year did New Zealand become independent from New South Wales? (so far as the authors of the wikipedia article know)the first recipe
combining the title ANZAC BISCUITS with the list of standard ingredients used today
was not published til what year?