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- Anzac biscuits and pavlova
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Anzac biscuits (top) and pavlova (bottom) are important to the national identities of Australia and New Zealand, both of which claim to have invented them. Anzac biscuits were originally known as 'soldiers' biscuits' because they were sent by Australian and New Zealand women to their troops serving in the First World War. Usually including rolled oats, sugar, flour and desiccated coconut, the biscuits were easy to make, hard and transportable, kept well and did not use eggs, which were in sho...
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- 20 March 2012
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- https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/33143/anzac-biscuits-and-pavlova
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