Of course, the true pleasure in traveling lies in meeting new people and seeing new sights. The cookies were named after the landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) in Gallipoli on the coast of Turkey, now known as Anzac Cove.Īs you can probably guess now, those little round cookies, which taste a little like a granola bar, are called Anzac Biscuits, which are also still baked at home to this day.Īnd the chocolate ones are the famous Tim Tam cookies. That’s why wives and girlfriends would bake them during the war to send to soldiers. Loaded with rolled oats, coconut and wattleseed (nutritious seeds with a vaguely hazelnut flavor that come from native trees in the Australian bush), but made without eggs or milk, the cookies not only kept well, but were an inexpensive source of added nutrition. The second cookie originated around 1915 during World War I. They are sold there only from October through March, though, no doubt because that’s summer-time in the Southern Hemisphere, when the temperatures soar and would wreck havoc on shipments of chocolate-coated treats. Pepperidge Farm introduced the Aussie-made cookies to the United States a couple of years ago in Target stores. They were apparently named after the winning horse in the 1958 Kentucky Derby, according to Wikipedia, after the owner of Arnott bakery attended that particular race. Any Aussies in the house? Is that true? Is this cookie akin to the Oreo of Australia?Īrnott’s bakery, established just north of Sydney in 1865, started making the cookies in 1964. The chocolate biscuit (cookie to you, Americans), composed of two layers of crispy chocolate malted cookies spread with light chocolate cream and then covered in yet more chocolate, is supposedly the very favorite of Australians. Though both have quite storied pasts, they are both new to my taste buds, having been introduced to them on my recent trip to Australia, sponsored by Boundary Bend, Ltd. Do you know what that chocolate cookie is above?
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