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Friday, October 30, 2026

A Biscuit for the Second Last Day


It’s the second last day of Inktober and the prompt is cookie. Australians of a certain age I would never use the term. They have biscuits.

My very favourite biscuit to have with coffee is an Anzac. It’s a very flat oat based biscuit, that supposedly dates back to the First World War. It was largely made to a special recipe that wouldn’t go stale and on the long ship journey to the combined Australian and New Zealand Troops overseas. When I was a kid the tradition lived on and every family had their own secret recipe. They all used golden syrup. A sugar syrup much lighter than the equivalent molasses, but with a similar taste.