I hope all Aussies are having or have had a happy Australia Day. To join in the celebrations I bought a packet of Anzac Biscuits at a local supermarket, even though Anzac Day itself isn’t for a couple of months. I’d never noticed them before.
According to the blurb on the packet, these biscuits celebrate “the enduring spirit of Australian and New Zealand men and women and assumed an increasingly important role as World War I dragged on.” They were baked at home using the ingredients available, rolled oats, golden syrup and flour and were sold as fund-raisers for the Red Cross. Now the company donates (a meagre) 4% of sales to support veterans, through the Royal British Legion in the UK.
They’re not the most exciting biscuits ever, and now use dessicated coconut as well, but they’re good for dunking. Am I the only person never to have noticed these biscuits on the shelves before?
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An interesting post sheona. Have to admit to of never having heard of them before and I was thinking along the lines of Hard Tac biscuits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANZAC_biscuit
I did see them sheona but assumed they were a derivitive of prozac so I left them alone, I’m laid back enough as it is.
Anzac biscuits taste great, I know a lady who used to cook them for the WW2 soldiers back during the war and her mother used to cook them for the soldiers during WW1, she has cooked them for me every year since I left the army.
She’s way past 80 and had to stop drinking last year because they gave her a pacemaker but she still walks to the RSL every single day for a meal and a go at the pokies. She has more medals than the entire army.
They have a tangy taste so what you’re supposed to do is to put some butter on them or else do like the soldiers used to do and dip them in some marmalade. Today they’re only given as symbol but back during the war they kept many an Aussie alive during times when supplies could not reach them for weeks at a time …. Tobruk is one example, soldiers lived on them for months. 🙂
I am not sure the Aussies are so happy after the cricket score.
Well, FEEG, I agree it’s not as good as 4:0 would have been, but at least 3:1 has kept the series alive. Our tail did pretty well, though! 😕
I have never had them, no… But then when do Septics recognise the sacrifices of others on a general level…
A visiting Aussie bought us a tin of Anzac biscuits last time he came. I must say they were a trifle disappointing.
But the tin was nice
We can buy Tim Tams here, Sheona but I’ve yet to spot Anzac biscuits.
What are Tim Tams,Araminta?
Sheona –
There are now many different variations, with dark chocolate, white chocolate, various fillings, etc..
Anzac recipes – http://www.abc.net.au/tasmania/stories/s1087121.htm
They are another variety of Australian biscuits, Sheona.
According to Bilby, although she is not a biscuit person, so we haven’t been tempted to buy any yet.
Ah, thank you, Bearsy. 🙂
Think – ‘Penguin’. 😀
One needs to read the label on Tim Tam biscuit packets, the Indonesians have taken to making replicas of them and they are actually being sold in Australia (legally) , they taste terrible and are smaller plus have unknown ingredients.
Sounds like the ghastly stuff my poor mama used to make, totally inedible.
Goats would like them though!
Thanks, Araminta and Bearsy. If I do come across them, I will check carefully the country of origin.