Muesli Anzacs

500g pkt toasted muesli, 2 cups coconut, 4 cups sugar, 4 cups plain flour, 8 oz marg, 1 cup boiling water, 1/2 cup golden syrup, 3 tspn carb soda.

Method: Place muesli, coconut, sugar and sifted flour into large bowl mix well. Place butter and golden syrup into pan stir over heat until butter is melted. Add carb soda to boiling water, mix quickly. Add water and butter mixtures to dry mixture. Mix well, place tspnfuls of mixture on to greased oven tray, allow room for spreading. Bake moderate oven 8-10 mins or until golden. Cool slightly before removing from trays.

Source: contributed by K. Loechel in Centenary Cook Book 1878-1978 by St. Paul's Lutheran Women, Yorketown (Yorketown, [1978]), p.80.

Note: The Old Foodie has a nice piece on the history of the Anzac biscuit.