Beyond cookery books, the biscuit featured in children's literature, a political cartoon, food memorials, and national war museum websites. ![]() Community fundraising cookery books transmitted the recipe the most, followed by those promoting kitchen appliances. Approximately two hundred cookery books published from the 1930s to the 1990s provide our window into New Zealand's home baking traditions. These messages were strongest throughout the inter-war years, World War II, and the Cold War Era until the 1970s. Then, as writers and readers of cookery books or as mothers, 'the keeper of the hearth', women transmitted the recipe in addition to messages about nutrition, housewifery, and patriotism. Australasian women collectively created the recipe in the early decades of the twentieth century. ![]() The culinary icon the Anzac biscuit and 'the idea of the recipe' blends mythology with historical truths on both sides of the Tasman.
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