Easy Homemade Biscuits

BitterAndTwisted

I can't see why you couldn't substitute the icing sugar for either caster sugar or good old granulated in that recipe.

chella71

Patchwork_Quilt wrote: »

My best one has to be shortbread - 8oz very soft butter, 8oz plain flour, 4oz cornflour and 4oz icing sugar. Rub in until it all comes together and press into a big lump. Roll out to desired thickness,cut out into rounds and bake in Gas 3 oven until tinged with golden brown. You can include cocoa powder to make chocolate flavour. When they're cool, you can dip half of each biscuit in melted chocolate. You can put icing on them. You can stick sweets on them. Brilliant stuff.

Just wanted to give this recipe a bump, I tried it yesterday afternoon and had fabulous results, the shortbread was perfect, crunchy yet melt in the mouth, the only tweaks I had to make were I had to put a tiny bit of water into my mix before I rolled out (1tsp ish) as my mixture was too crumbly to roll, also added a tiny bit of plain flour to roll out as it then was a little sticky!! I cut out with cutter, made 20+ biscuits and then dipped half in melted chocolate, yum yum yum, thank you VERY much, next time I'm going to add either chocolate chips to the mix or raisins, I cooked on low heat (fan assisted electric oven) and just kept an eye until they were very lightly golden, perfect.

THANK YOU XX

Lazy_Liz

Just had a look at the Be-Ro site, could not belive how cheap the Be-Ro cookbook was, have written my cheque and will post it next. I have wanted one of these for a while may of my friends in the Women's Insitute use their copies all the time and I can assure you the results are fab.
Think I will have a go at the stove top cookies too, very unusaul method.

Here is my very quick and easy gingernut recipe

3oz/85g butter or margarine
6oz/170g Self rasing flour
3oz/85g sugar (I use demerara but it works with granulated too)
1tbs golden syrup
pinch of bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp ground ginger or miore if you like them spicy

Melt the butter/marg and syrup together. Add the flour, sugar, bicarb and ginger and stir well. Roll generous teaspoons full into balls and flatten with a fork. Bake 12-15mins Gas mark 5 180Centigrade. Makes about 15.

If you want to make these a bit posh you can add chopped ginger in syrup and try dipping in plain 70% cocco chocolate

MaggieBaking

I had a look before but couldn't see anything exciting about the Be-Ro books at all? Can anyone enlighten me as why they're worth a purchase?

sazzy6

Hey guys I know you will be able to help me. I am about to start a biscuit baking unit with my class and I need several fool proof recipes which need minimal ingredients. I have googled many recipes but you look like a wally when you show the class and they don't turn out right.

I know you will have some super ones (that are tried and tested) up your sleeves!

Many thanks in advance
:beer:

jolfc

sazzy6 wrote: »

Hey guys I know you will be able to help me. I am about to start a biscuit baking unit with my class and I need several fool proof recipes which need minimal ingredients. I have googled many recipes but you look like a wally when you show the class and they don't turn out right.

I know you will have some super ones (that are tried and tested) up your sleeves!

Many thanks in advance
:beer:

As a school cook the children at my school loved shortcake biscuits only requires chucking all the ingredients in a bowl, mixing, rolling out and cutting. It is sugar, butter and plain flour from the bero book, sorry I cant give you the amounts, but my book is at school, lol. Delicious, . You may be able to google the recipe.

sazzy6

jolfc wrote: »

As a school cook the children at my school loved shortcake biscuits only requires chucking all the ingredients in a bowl, mixing, rolling out and cutting. It is sugar, butter and plain flour from the bero book, sorry I cant give you the amounts, but my book is at school, lol. Delicious, . You may be able to google the recipe.

Does the recipe here look familiar?

http://www.be-ro.com/recipe/showrec30.html

jolfc

sazzy6 wrote: »

Does the recipe here look familiar?

http://www.be-ro.com/recipe/showrec30.html

Thats the one, but I just roll out the dough and use a cutter to make rounds, onto a baking sheet and in oven until golden, , possibly for 30 biscuits triple or 4 times the amounts.

sazzy6

jolfc wrote: »

Thats the one, but I just roll out the dough and use a cutter to make rounds, onto a baking sheet and in oven until golden, , possibly for 30 biscuits triple or 4 times the amounts.

Super! Each group of 6 will make their own batch so no need to increase the recipe as such (as long as I have enough ingredients!) They will make 5 different biscuits over the week and the following week design their own!!!! :eek: Goodness only knows what they will come up with! lol x

jolfc

sazzy6 wrote: »

Super! Each group of 6 will make their own batch so no need to increase the recipe as such (as long as I have enough ingredients!) They will make 5 different biscuits over the week and the following week design their own!!!! :eek: Goodness only knows what they will come up with! lol x

Lol,:rotfl:
Another popular one is cheese straws and chocolate chip cookies, again just thrown in the bowl type making, you would need a google again though.


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