Cookbook:Biscuits III
| Biscuits III | |
|---|---|
| Category | Biscuit recipes |
| Yield | 18 biscuits |
| Time | 20 minutes |
| Difficulty |  |
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This recipe is adapted from the public domain cookbook Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management.[1]
Ingredients
[edit | edit source]- 1¼ cups (175 g/6.2 oz) all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup (55 g/1.9 oz) caster sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tablespoons milk
Procedure
[edit | edit source]- Preheat the oven to 220 °C (428 °F). Grease a baking pan.
- Beat the egg and milk together in a bowl.
- Mix the other ingredients into the egg mixture to form a soft dough.
- Roll out the dough to 5 mm (0.20 in) and cut out into very thin biscuits with a round cookie cutter.
- Place the biscuits on the baking pan.
- Bake for 6 minutes until golden.
- Take the biscuits out of the oven and leave them to cool.