Uno (from Spanish and Italian for 'one'), stylized as UNO, is a proprietary American shedding-type card game originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, that housed International Games Inc., a gaming company acquired by Mattel on January 23, 1992.  Played with a specially printed deck, the game is derived from the crazy eights family of card games which, in turn, is based on the traditional German game of mau-mau.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uno_(card_game)#External_links  

The Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit, popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter (or margarine), golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water, and (optionally) desiccated coconut.  Anzac biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I.  It is thought that these biscuits were sent by wives and women's groups to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and the biscuits kept well during naval transportation.  Anzac biscuits should not be confused with hardtack, which was nicknamed "ANZAC wafers" in Australia and New Zealand.  Anzac biscuits are an explicit exemption to an Australian ban on commercial goods that use the term "Anzac", so long as they are sold as "biscuits" and not "cookies".  The origin of Anzac biscuits is contested between Australia and New Zealand, similar to the dispute over pavlova. The actual recipe for the biscuit has been found long before the formation of the ANZAC Corps, and many of the first recipes for Anzac biscuits differ from the modern version.  The earliest known recipe combining the words 'anzac' and 'biscuit' is a recipe from 1916 for "ANZAC GINGER BISCUITS" which was published on 4 June 1916 in the Perth edition of The Sunday Times.  However, this recipe contains no mention of oats present in modern anzac biscuits.  The first recipe for something called "Anzac Biscuits" appears in an Australian publication, the War Chest Cookery Book (Sydney, 1917), but this recipe was also for a different biscuit from what we know as the modern Anzac biscuit.  The same publication, the War Chest Cookery Book (Sydney, 1917), also included the first two recipes for biscuits resembling modern Anzac biscuits, under the names of "Rolled Oats Biscuits" and just "Biscuits".  The first recorded instance of the combination of the name 'Anzac biscuit' and the recipe now associated with it was found in Adelaide dating to "either late 1919 or early 1920".  Another early recipe for the Anzac biscuit dates back to 1921 in an Australian newspaper called The Argus.  These early recipes did not contain desiccated coconut which is present in many modern Anzac biscuits.  The first recipe for an Anzac biscuit containing the desiccated coconut is recorded to be from the city of Adelaide in 1924.  In 1919 in New Zealand a recipe for Anzac Crispies in the eighth edition of the St. Andrew's Cookery Book had similar ingredients to modern Anzac biscuits.  Today, Anzac biscuits are manufactured commercially for retail sale.  Because of their historical military connection with the ANZACs and Anzac Day, these biscuits are still used as a fundraising item for the Royal New Zealand Returned Services' Association (RSA) and the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL).  Special collectors old-style biscuit tins with World War military artwork are usually produced in the lead up to Anzac Day and sold in supermarkets, in addition to the standard plastic packets available all year.  The official RSL biscuit is produced by Unibic under licence.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_biscuit#  

Anzac dough is great as a cobbler topping, or even a tart base.  Leftover cookies keep well in an air-tight container for a few days.  Have fun experimenting with other zests or spice additions, anything that pairs nicely with oats and coconut will likely work here.  For a more traditional Anzac cookie, leave out the orange zest and orange blossom water.  Makes 18-24 medium cookies.  Find Anzac cookies recipe at https://www.101cookbooks.com/anzac-cookies/  

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