Anzac

Sweet and crispy Anzac cookies are particularly popular and sleep only in Australia and New Zealand, but many other countries around the world. Traditionally, it is prepared on the basis of oats, wheat flour, granulated sugar, coconut, butter, light molasses, boiled water and baking soda.

For most people, anzac cookies have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, created during the First World War, whose abbreviation is listed as ANZAC. These cookies were often sent to their loved ones, since, due to its distinctive properties, the anzac easily tolerated long sea shipments.

Interestingly, the army itself even produced anzac cookies - it was part of the soldiers' diet called tiles or anzac wafer, but it differed somewhat in the recipe. In fact, such cookies were biscuits, that is, a substitute for bread in the field, were very hard and were characterized by long shelf life.

To date, there is more than one theory regarding the time of origin of Anzac cookies, while the main one implies 1914-15 - the beginning of World War I. So, there is an opinion that the Anzac cookies were invented by the soldiers themselves from the provisions that were under their hands - so they tried to diversify their meager food rations.

However, most argue that the inventors of Anzac cookies should be considered Australian and New Zealand women who created this treat for their loved ones. In addition, there is speculation that Anzac cookies are a variation of oatcake, that is, the result of influence in New Zealand Dunedin of Scottish immigration.

Back in the 1917 book War Chest Cookery Book, a recipe for anzac cookies was discovered, but it did not correspond at all to what is known today, and the current recipe for this confectionery repeated the oat cookies of those times. The first coincidence of both the name and the method of preparation is mentioned in the ninth edition of St Andrew's Cookery Book, which was published four years later in Sydney. There, the biscuits appear as "anzac crisps, " while later editions are characterized by the name "anzac biscuits. "

Currently, this tasty and fragrant cookie is made on an industrial scale, after which it can be easily found in retail. In view of the established associations with ANZAC, as well as ANZAC Day, it is these cookies that are often used as an element for raising funds intended for the veteran organizations of these two states.