Who invented the Anzac biscuit?
here you are: ANZAC Biscuits are a snack food most commonly made from the primary ingredients of rolled oats, coconut, and golden syrup. Many myths surround the origin of the ANZAC Biscuits. One story is that the biscuits were made by Australian and New Zealand women for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers during World War I, that they were reputedly first called “Soldiers’ Biscuits” then renamed “ANZAC Biscuits” after the Gallipoli landing. The recipe was reportedly created to ensure the biscuits would keep well during naval transportation to those fighting overseas. However, those biscuits were shaped more like rock cakes and were made from entirely different ingredients. Research carried out by Professor Helen Leach, a culinary anthropologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand, revealed that the first time the name “ANZAC” appeared in the name of the biscuit in a recipe book was in 1921. That occurred in the renaming of the “oatmeal biscuit” recipe to “
