Anzac Day

ANZAC Day Cooking

Students were asked the respond to the following question:

Try to imagine that you were a soldier in WW1 and you had just received a package from home that included some Anzac Biscuits. Describe your reaction, and those of your fellow “diggers”.

Joyful for the sweet biscuits and even possibly celebrating for the first sweet biscuit that they would have had in a long time.
It would be like finding gold because some of the solders didn’t get fed well.
Today some of the boys and I got packages filled with Anzac biscuits, never seen my mates that happy in a while. I was happy myself they are so tasty. It gives me hope that I’ll live another day.
This is the best day ever! I just got a large parcel of biscuits from my mother and I can’t wait to eat these with my good mates I wouldn’t want them to miss out on my mum’s famous biscuits. I have my first bite and I feel like I am back home after a game of cricket in my home town. They are chewy in the middle, just how I like it.
I would be overjoyed as I and my fellow soldiers can eat something delicious aside from the bland food we have had to eat all this time.

Cooking - History through ANZAC Biscuits

By Kaitlyn Harrison.

When the wars were going on the soldiers couldn’t go home to get a sandwich, they ate Anzac cookies. Women from all over the world made these cookies and sent them to the soldiers. They don’t contain milk or eggs so they don’t go off really quickly, they can last up to 2 weeks before they go bad. The biscuits used to be called soldiers biscuits because they we made for the soldiers but then changed a while later to Anzac biscuits. We make Anzac biscuits in honour of the soldiers who fought for our country.