Photo by Keiko Oikawa
Anzac biscuits, purportedly sent to those serving in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the First World War, significantly contained no ingredients that could spoil on the long voyage. Although I think it is important to remember Anzac Day in the proper fashion each 25 April (this was the date of the first Anzac landing at Gallipoli in 1915), I don’t feel it is necessary to make the biscuits as hard, dry and durable as they needed to be then. So, I have taken liberties and added pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and sesame seeds, which might not last a long-distance journey without refrigeration, but make for a much more beguilingly textured biscuit. These Seed-Studded Anzac Biscuits are like less stodgy flapjacks in cookie form.
