Australia

A bit stuffed still from last nights Bobotie so going with a snack for our Australia dish rather than a main. Anyway we need to keep some room for this evenings USA hamburger and fries!!

The biscuits we've chosen to do are called Anzac biscuits, they get their name from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Apparently (according to wikipedia anyway) during WWI women would bake these biscuits for their husbands travelling the long distance to the front.

These biscuits are really sweet and delicious. Our first batch got a little burnt on the bottom, we got distracted by South Korea running rings around Greece. I don't think you can tell from the photo though - I might as well get good at disguising our cooking errors, I'm sure there will be plenty more in the next few weeks!

We are going our 5 year old nieces birthday party later so can offload the biscuits there and won't be tempted to eat all 30 ourselves. Mores the pity.


Anzac Biscuits

Ingredients

1 cup plain flour
1 cup oats (we used porridge oatlets)
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup coconut
125g butter
2 tbsp golden syrup
1 tbsp water
1/2 tsp bread soda

Method
Sieve flour into bowl. Add sugar and oats and coconut.
Melt butter in a saucepan and add golden syrup and water.
Stir in the bread soda into the butter mixture and add to the flour and oats, mixing thoroughly.
Make small balls (about the size of a walnut) and place on a greased baking tray. Make sure you leave about 4 inches between each ball as they spread as they cook.
Bake at gas mark 4 for 15 mins - be careful not to completely forget about them and end up with burnt biscuits.. not nice.

When you take them out of the oven they will be soft, but will harden as they cool.




Right, next game's up now... Argentina v Nigeria... c'mon Nigeria!!!!