{"id":8161,"date":"2020-01-23T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2020-02-19T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T22:51:13","slug":"anzac-biscuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/anzac-biscuits.html","title":{"rendered":"Anzac Biscuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>ANZAC biscuits have long had an association with the Australia\/New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) <\/em><em>troops sent to Gallipoli during WWI. The biscuit appears to be a variant of the Scottish oat cake, said <\/em><em>to be from the Scottish-influenced city of Dunedin. The recipe was created to ensure the biscuits <\/em><em>would keep well during naval transportation to loved ones who were fighting abroad. The finished <\/em><em>biscuits are quite chewy and crisp, and have a long shelf-life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Desiccated Coconut is dried, shredded (or flaked) Coconut.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It can be bought sweetened or unsweetened, flaked or shredded, and grated fine, medium or coarse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 c plain (non-self raising) flour<\/li>\n<li>1 c white or brown sugar (brown sugar gives more colour and flavour)<\/li>\n<li>4 Tab Golden Syrup (or honey)<\/li>\n<li>1 cup desiccated coconut (several other recipes used regular shredded\/flaked)<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp baking soda<\/li>\n<li>2 Tab of water<\/li>\n<li>2 c rolled or instant oats<\/li>\n<li>1 c butter or margarine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.<\/li>\n<li>Melt the syrup and butter in a saucepan.<\/li>\n<li>Add the baking soda and water to the syrup mix.<\/li>\n<li>Mix the wet and dry ingredients, adding water if necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Separate and roll the mixture into small balls.<\/li>\n<li>Flatten them on oven trays.<\/li>\n<li>Bake at 300\u00b0 for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Taste of Australia VPWL December 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANZAC biscuits have long had an association with the Australia\/New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) troops sent to Gallipoli during WWI. The biscuit appears to be a variant of the Scottish oat cake, said to be from the Scottish-influenced city of Dunedin. The recipe was created to ensure the biscuits would keep well during naval transportation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/anzac-biscuits.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anzac Biscuits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-8161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweets-cookies","tag-vpwl-oct-2012"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8266,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions\/8266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/margie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}