Statistics

So, what goes into an Anzac biscuit?

Oh, some flour, sugar, coconut, rolled oats, butter, syrup, vanilla essence, bicarb and a pinch of salt...

Right, but what goes into a bag of biscuits, or more to the point 3,635 bags of biscuits as the tally stands at 36,350 at the end of Tuesday afternoon?

Well after dusting off the trusty abacus, and performing some complex mathematical calculations based on algebraic formulae, we are pleased to provide our readers with the following estimate:

254 kg butter
272 kg flour
391 kg sugar
191 kg rolled oats
154 kg coconut
Approx 2.25 L vanilla essence
Approx 4.5 kg bicarb (and almost 73 L boiling water to dissolve it!)
Just under 36.5 L golden syrup
And 1,817.5 pinches of salt...

Then there's the packaging:

3,635 cello bags
3,635 labels
3,635 inserts
3,635 gumnuts
And to finish it off, just centimetres short of 2 km of ribbon...

Oh, and a few hundred metres of baking paper to line the baking trays - all of which are discarded at the end of a day's baking.

Note this estimate does not allow for the odd reject biscuit and a collection of random crumbs!!!