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The Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit, popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter (or margarine), golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water and optionally desiccated coconut. [2] [3] Anzac biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I. [4]
New Zealand is ranked 27th in beer consumption per capita, at around 64.7 litres per person per annum. The vast majority of beer produced in New Zealand is a type of lager, either pale or amber in colour, and between 4%–5% alcohol by volume. There are also over 100 smaller craft breweries and brewpubs producing a vast range of beer styles.
An Afghan is a traditional New Zealand [1] [2] [3] biscuit made from flour, butter, cornflakes, sugar and cocoa powder, topped with chocolate icing and a half walnut.The recipe [4] has a high proportion of butter, and relatively low sugar, and no leavening (rising agent), giving it a soft, dense and rich texture, with crunchiness from the cornflakes, rather than from a high sugar content.
A biscuit, in many English-speaking countries, including Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa but not Canada or the US, is a flour-based baked and shaped food item. Biscuits are typically hard, flat, and unleavened. They are usually sweet and may be made with sugar, chocolate, icing, jam, ginger, or cinnamon.
What is the relevance of Dunedin? Anzac biscuits may be derived from a Scottish recipe, but that has nothing to do with Dunedin - there are Scots all over New Zealand and Australia. My grandmother - a girl during the First World War - had a recipe book dating from about 1917/1918 that has a recipe for Anzac biscuits. It was published in New ...
Weet-Bix is seen in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa as an iconic national foodstuff. An online poll of 16,000 people in 2006 identified it as Australia's favourite trademark. [ 6 ] The product has been marketed in Australia since 1985 with the catchphrase "Aussie kids are Weet-Bix kids". [ 7 ]
The name is derived from "tack", the British sailor slang for food. The earliest use of the term recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1830. [3]It is known by other names including brewis (possibly a cognate with "brose"), cabin bread, pilot bread, sea biscuit, soda crackers, sea bread (as rations for sailors), ship's biscuit, and pejoratively as dog biscuits, molar breakers, sheet ...
They have a golden brown, glazed exterior and a moderately sweet pastry, but their defining characteristic is the layer of squashed fruit which gives rise to the colloquial names fly sandwiches, flies' graveyards, dead fly biscuits, [4] squashed fly biscuits, or in New Zealand, fly traps, because the squashed fruit resemble squashed flies. [5] [6]