Recipe for (Scottish) butter biscuits?

iwantanipod

I have Googled for this recipe, but the only ones which have come up are shortbread and other sweet biscuits. Although there is sugar in these biscuits (according to the packet), it is only a very small amount, and they are really savoury. Can anyone help, please?:)

Swan_2

I've looked in all of my books & can't find one & I see what you mean about Googling for a recipe
that's going to bother me now :think:

they've always reminded me a bit of Yorkshire teacakes, without fruit, but with a glaze & the little circle of holes on the top

maybe you could adapt a teacake recipe?


EDIT ... I've just found a recipe in Elizabeth David's English Bread & Yeast Cookery that talks about 'soft biscuits' made in the NE of Scotland, but the recipe itself is a bit vague

I have something I have to go & do just now, but I'll have a look later & see if I can figure it out ... unless someone else can find you a recipe first

jackieb

I've just phoned my mum and she thinks she might have one. She has notebooks full of handwritten recipes. If she does i'll post it here.

Are they the kind you have with cheese or jam? The ones i'm thinking of, aren't anything like teacakes.

Swan_2

jackieb wrote: »

I've just phoned my mum and she thinks she might have one. She has notebooks full of handwritten recipes. If she does i'll post it here.

Are they the kind you have with cheese or jam? The ones i'm thinking of, aren't anything like teacakes.

the ones I'm thinking of are yeasted, about the size of a soft roll/bap, but look more like a flattened bun, quite brown on top but not shiny, & are slightly sweet

I'd be interested to see your mum's recipe anyway I love handed-down recipes, I still make my Gran's Clootie Dumpling & my Grandma's Meat Roll


EDIT ... I'll wait & see what kind the OP's looking for before I try to decipher Elizabeth David's recipe

midnightraven3

:eek:did someone say dumpling???

oh its been so long since i had the end bit with lots of skin
yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm


the butter biscuits are a mystery to me
i shall watch and wait with interest

jackieb

The butter bisuits i'm thinking of are more like Rich Tea's and Digestives (although not sweet like them).

Mum just phoned and she can't find a recipe.

Has anyone got a Maw Broon's cookbook handy. There might be one in there. Someone 'tidied' mine away and I can't find it.

midnightraven3

is this them?

http://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/butteries.htm

jackieb

midnightraven3 wrote: »

is this them?

http://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/butteries.htm

No, that's a rowie, buttery, cookie or a morning roll. Depending on where in the North East you live.

These are butter biscuits.

http://mckenziebiscuits.com/product-sweet-butterbiscuit.htm

Swan_2

midnightraven3 wrote: »

:eek:did someone say dumpling???

oh its been so long since i had the end bit with lots of skin
yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm

we used to fight over that bit

jackieb wrote: »

The butter bisuits i'm thinking of are more like Rich Tea's and Digestives (although not sweet like them).

Mum just phoned and she can't find a recipe.

Has anyone got a Maw Broon's cookbook handy. There might be one in there. Someone 'tidied' mine away and I can't find it.

oh that's a pity

good idea the Maw Broon book, I don't have it myself, I'm sure someone else will come along who has though

midnightraven3 wrote: »

is this them?

http://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/butteries.htm

those are butter/Aberdeen rolls, another North Eastern delicacy :drool:

midnightraven3

:(i hoped i was getting a slice of dumpling

Swan_2

jackieb wrote: »

No, that's a rowie, buttery, cookie or a morning roll. Depending on where in the North East you live.

These are butter biscuits.

http://mckenziebiscuits.com/product-sweet-butterbiscuit.htm

oh I've seen them in the shops, they might well be what the OP's looking for, the kind I mean are quite an old-fashioned thing now & you rarely see them these days