Anzac Biscuits are crisp oatmeal cookies that are very good with tea. Various associations in Australia and New Zealand make them around Anzac Day to fundraise for veterans.
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Biscuits
Biscuits used to be rations for soldiers and sailors. The word literally comes from the French “bis” plus “cuit”: “bis” meaning twice, and “cuit” meaning cooked. The item was cooked, sliced and then cooked again, to remove as much moisture as possible to make it more spoilage resistant. You ended up with a hard, dry…
Chocolate Crackles Recipe
This is a great recipe to get kids to make, with your supervision.
Cookie Cutters
A Cookie Cutter is a tool used to “rolled cookies” in decorative shapes out of a rolled-out cookie dough. They mostly emerge in households at Christmas, bright with promise. Still, there is many a slip between the lovely shape of many of the intricate Cookie Cutters now available, and what actually comes out of the…
Cookie Pistol
A Cookie Pistol is a kitchen tool that is used to make cookies with special shapes. You pack the “holster” with dough, and then press to force the dough out through a nozzle to which you have attached the desired shape. Some are shaped like pistols; some are straight, long tubes. You can get electric…
Cookie Sheet
A Cookie Sheet is a flat sheet of metal designed for baking, usually cookies (aka biscuits.)It can also be used for baking many other things from wiener wraps to braided breads, oven fries to cinnamon rolls. Cookie Sheets are usually made of aluminum or steel. Some models are coated with non-stick surfacing. The sides may…
Digestive Biscuit Crumbs
Where North American recipes will often turn to Graham cracker crumbs to use as a base for pies and cakes, recipes in the UK, Australia and New Zealand will call instead for Digestive Biscuit Crumbs. Cooking Tips To make crumbs, whiz in food processor or place between two sheets of waxed-paper or put in freezer…
Digestive Biscuits
Digestive Biscuits are made from a mix of coarse wholewheat and white flours. They are firm, but still soft (rather than being crisp, like Crackers or Water Biscuits.) The biscuits are semi-sweet. They can be served as a sweet (you can even buy them already covered with milk chocolate), or you can use the plain…
Dunking
People like the flavour of a dunked cookie. They feel that the moisture a hot drink wakes up the flavour of their cookie. Some people will boldly plunge up to half their cookie all at once in their drink, other people will moisten an edge at a time. Dunking is done more in England than…
Florentines Recipe
These look gorgeous and people will think you slaved for hours, but they are dead easy.
Maple Icing Recipe
This is a butter-based icing for cakes, deriving its flavour from real maple syrup, rather than artificial maple flavouring. Very sweet, as you are adding sugar to sugar!
Peek Freans
Peek Freans was a famous Victorian brand of cookies and biscuits that were originally English but became a familiar sight in shops around the world.
Pork Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe
This is a monumental recipe, both in the quantity of cookies it makes, and in the breathtaking fashion with which it calls for sugar, lard, and meat, of all things.
Potato Chip Cookies Recipe
With a name like this, who is going to be able to resist trying them?
Pumpkin Spice Cookies Recipe
If you’re pumpkin pie-d out and still have some to use up, try these, they are very good.
Shrewsbury Biscuits Recipe
Classic English cookies.
Whipped Shortbread Recipe
Though not exactly actually whipped, whipped shortbread cookies are much lighter than regular shortbread, and almost melt in your mouth.
