Grandpa Biscuits / Anzac Biscuits

Anzac biscuits get their name from Australia and New Zealand Army Corps because these kind of biscuits were sent out by families to the troops. They survive in tins for absolutely ages, don’t mind the heat, survive a bit of sea water along the way and so on. Brilliant biscuits.

They were also the first biscuits that my father learnt to make and they became very popular with the grandchildren, visitors, plumbers, indeed anyone to whom he owed a favour. Hence, in our family, Grandpa biscuits.

So without further ado, here’s the recipe. Very simple. Takes about half an hour to make. As I said, in an airtight container they last AGES (weeks unless you eat them all which is a greater risk tbh).

Grandpa Biscuits / Anzac Biscuits

Set oven to 165oC

Get two bowls

One bowl

250g self raising flour

250g porridge oats

1tsp baking powder

Stir together

Other bowl

250g butter

250g soft brown sugar (ideally light as it’s harder to see when it’s cooked if not)

2 tbsp golden syrup

Melt in microwave & stir together

Then mix two bowls together. Now wait for 10 minutes. Get three baking trays ready with baking paper on them.

When your 10 min timer has gone off, grab golf ball sized amounts of the mixture, squish each one into a firm ball and put it, spaced out on the tray. 

Put into the oven for 5 minutes. Then grab a wooden spoon and squish them all flat with the back of a spoon.

Back into the oven for 8 minutes. 

When golden around the edge, take it out of the oven. I then pick up the baking paper and put that directly onto a wire rack to cool. You could faff about picking up each one individually with a fish slice but that takes ages.  Then eat them.



Food: Post Illness Smoothie

I know... yoga teacher suggests a smoothie... nothing revolutionary there... but we've been ill in this house for about ten days (a lovely relay routine of illness) and no-one's appetite is back to normal yet. So in the interest of feeding myself something more nutritious than dry toast, I made a smoothie.

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  • one banana

  • one avocado 

  • couple of tablespoons of walnuts

  • three tablespoons of vanilla soy yoghurt

  • a cup of unroasted almond milk 

I'm sure this could happily be made with cow's milk yoghurt and milk but it gives me spots, so I'm mostly dairy free. 

It was delicious and my husband declared it "The nicest smoothie he's ever eaten" (which considering he's had quite a few, I consider a serious accolade).