--- title: "Anzac Biscuits · Rampant Scotland" description: "Traditional Scottish Recipes - Anzac Biscuits ANZAC (the acronym for the WW1 Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) biscuits are a sweet biscuit popular in Aust" canonical: "https://rampant-scotland.pages.dev/recipes/blrecipe_anzac.htm" last-updated: "2026-11-09" date-basis: "git-content-change" --- # Anzac Biscuits · Rampant Scotland Recipes # Anzac Biscuits [Original page](https://web.archive.org/web/20250714122852/http://www.rampantscotland.com/recipes/blrecipe_anzac.htm) *Traditional Scottish Recipes* *- Anzac Biscuits* *ANZAC (the acronym for the WW1 Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) biscuits are a sweet biscuit popular in Australia and New Zealand. It has been suggested that the biscuit is a variation of Scottish oat cakes due to the Scottish influence in New Zealand. It has been claimed the biscuits were sent by wives to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation. Today, ANZAC Biscuits are manufactured commercially for retail sale and are popular in Australia and New Zealand.* ## Ingredients (to make around 35 biscuits) - 3½oz / 85g / generous ½cup rolled oats 2½oz / 60oz / ½ cup dessicated coconut 4oz /125g / 1 cup plain flour 7oz / 200g / 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons golden syrup 4oz / 110g / 1 stick butter ½teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 1 tablespoon water ## Method Pre-heat the oven to 150C / 300F / Gas Mark 2. Mix together the oats, coconut, flour and sugar. Melt the syrup and butter together. Mix the bicarbonte of soda with with boiling water and add to melted butter and syrup. Add to dry ingredients and place a tablespoon of the mixture on a greased tray, allowing room for spreading. Bake in pre-heated oven at 150C / 300F / Gas Mark 2. for 20 minutes. Loosen from the tray while still warm and allow to cool on trays. ## Source From Rampant Scotland, restored from the page as it stood on 14 July 2025. [Original page](https://web.archive.org/web/20250714122852/http://www.rampantscotland.com/recipes/blrecipe_anzac.htm). Links to pages not yet restored here lead to the original page or elsewhere on the web.