{"id":1493,"date":"2011-10-04T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrea.mcguireclan.org\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2017-11-07T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:30:10","slug":"australian-anzac-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrea.mcguireclan.org\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Australian Anzac Biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week we were studying about Australia. Friday we were going to cook, but something came up so we could not. So yesterday we made the Australian meal. I made the cookies, Mark made dinner and Audrey made a salad. It was really good.<\/p>\n

Anzac biscuits are the national biscuit (cookie) in Australia. They are named this because women would cook them for soldiers. They needed something that lasted a long time without going bad because it took two months to get to the soldiers. On 25 April 1915, the A<\/strong>ustralian and N<\/strong>ew Z<\/strong>ealand A<\/strong>rmy C<\/strong>orps landed in Turkey on the Gallipoli peninsula. They were beaten the worst in Australian war history. So instead of being called Soldiers biscuits, their name was changed to ANZAC Biscuits.<\/p>\n

They taste like an oatmeal cookie, but too sweet for an oatmeal cookie. I really liked it. Momma said it reminded her of the Scottish Ginger Flapjack<\/a> cookie she makes sometimes. So we researched and learned that many Scottish people came to Australia (and probably brought their oat cake recipe with them). They baked their cookie on a griddle. That is why they are so close.<\/p>\n