Ms Stagg, a key figure for many years in the Kyabram Chamber of Commerce, operates Allan St’s Wickedly Deevine coffee shop and was inspired to conduct the community fund raiser on the back of her own family’s involvement with the armed forces.
Her younget son, Corey, spent 10 years in the army and had an eight-month deployment to Afghanistan.
Another of her sons, Tyler, is in army reserve over at Shepparton.
“That was partially the inspiration, but Solider On does a lot of work in the mental health and suicide space,” Ms Stagg said.
“Our famiy has an understanding of what suicide does to families and helpin people in this space is a big part of Soldier On,” Ms Stagg said.
She said she had secured her nanna’s recipe about 30 years ago and the response to her latest baking exploits were similar to the feedback received by her grandmother.
“People just love them. The biscuits always turn out great,” she said.
Ms Stagg said the recipe her nanna used as “legit’’ and she had to seek approval to use the term Anzac for the sale of the buscuits.
The Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter (or margarine), golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water, and desiccated coconut.
The biscuits have long been associated with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) established in World War I, when it was claimed that they were sent by wives and women’s groups to soldiers abroad because the ingredients do not spoil easily and kept well during naval transportation.
Anzac biscuits have an exemption to an Australian ban on commercial goods that use the term “Anzac”, so long as they are sold as biscuits and not cookies.
“A couple of years before COVID people were putting all sorts of ingredients ito Anzac biscuits, so now approval is required before selling them with the Anzac name,” Ms Stagg said.
“I even had to call canberra for permission,” she said.
Ms Stagg said her nanna was only a few months off her 99th birthday when she died and was famous for her Anzacs.
She had a brother who fought in New Guinea.
“My Pop didn’t go because he was an orchadist,” she said.
Kyabram Free Press’ advertising staff have supported the cause, providing printing expertise for stickers to be attached to the bags.
And the feedback has been immediate.
“I’ve had a call they were the best she had every eaten,’’ she said.
There are eight biscuits in a bag, the 60-gram biscuits on sale for an ongoing period.
“They’ve given me until June 30 to sell them,’’ she said.
Ms Stagg said friend had offered to sit in the steeet and sell them for her, but for now they would be sold from the front counter.
Wickedly Deevine’s Anzac Buscuit bags are available for $15 each.
