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The origin, history and tradition of Anzac biscuits

 

  Anzac biscuits
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● History and origin of Anzac biscuits

● Research

● Issues
 
 

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  History Anzac Biscuit (Wikipedia)
Origins and links to recipes. From Wikipedia Encyclopedia, which is written by volunteers. (Links, but no recipe, included.)

All about Anzac biscuits (taste.com.au)
History of Anzac biscuits.

Anzac Biscuits: The Origin and Recipe (awm.gov.au)
Includes two recipes: the old army biscuit or ANZAC tile/wafer recipe (this is NOT the common "Anzac biscuit") and "Popular ANZAC Biscuit recipe" (includes coconut).

ANZAC Biscuits (anzacday.org.au)
 Origin and history of the Anzac biscuit, along with a recipe (includes coconut).

 The Anzac (biscuit) story (recipefinder.ninemsn.com.au)
Story, recipe (includes coconut), variations.

A Traditional Anzac Biscuit Recipe (suite101.com)
History and recipe.

Anzac Biscuits (aka Soldiers' biscuits) (diggerhistory.info - if the link is not working, see Where is Digger History?)
How the Anzac biscuit originated. Includes "an old grandmother's recipe" (using coconut) and a recipe that "makes 5 dozen" (also using coconut).
 
  Research and history Anzac Biscuits - A Culinary Memorial [pdf file] (research.humanities.curtin.edu.au)
Report on the history of and issues associated with Anzac biscuits, by Sian Supski, Curtin University of Technology.
Among topics covered are:
- Anzac biscuits and Anzac mythology
- the origins of Anzac biscuits
- the role of Anzac biscuits in commemorating Anzac Day
- the variation in Anzac biscuit recipes
- the role of women in the war
- the ingredients: inclusion/omission of coconut and cream of tartar, addition of wattleseed
Reproduces three recipes:
- Anzac Crisps (Green & Gold Cookery Book, 1927)
- Anzac Biscuits (Margaret Fulton Cookbook 25th Anniversary edition, 2004
- Anzac Biscuits (Donna Hay Magazine, Autumn 2001)

 The Anzac Biscuit Myth (ecook.co.nz)
 Professor Helen Leach of Otago University believes that the name "Anzac" and the recipe first came together as "Anzac Crispies", in New Zealand in 1921...

Blog article - ANZAC Biscuits (awm.gov.au)
Discusses soldiers' unusual uses of hardtack biscuits and the uncertainty over the origin of Anzac biscuits.
 
  Issues ISSUES
Subway cuts Anzac biscuits after request to alter recipe (ausfoodnews.com.au)
Australian Food News, 22 September 2008
"Federal legislation dictates that Anzac biscuits and cakes can only be sold in Australia if the product 'generally conforms to the traditional recipe and shape, is not advertised in any way that would play on Australia’s military heritage, and is not used in association with the word ‘cookies’, with its non-Australian overtones'."

Anzac Biscuit: Legal issues (Wikipedia)

● See also Research and history, above.
 
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● Anzac biscuit recipes

 

 

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