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Recipe for (Scottish) butter biscuits?
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the OP's gone off-line now, maybe we'll never know
but I've just noticed she mentions them being packet, & the butter biscuits I know are usually sold singly in the baker's, so I think it'll be the ones you've posted about jackie0 -
Many thanks for all your replies. These biscuits are very popular in the North East of Scotland and are sometimes known as "hard biscuits" or "hardies"!
Many years ago, I got a handwritten recipe but, of course, when I want it, I can't find it!
These biscuits are more savoury, sometimes spread with butter and a bit of cheese, but I like them with butter and syrup (and I wonder why my waistline is expanding!).
Butteries (or Rowies, as they're known in Aberdeen), are more bun-like, as are softies or baps.
If anyone does find the recipe, please post it, and likewise if I should come across it, I will do the same.
:AMad about cats - or maybe just mad! :rotfl:0 -
I think you mean these if they have yeast in the ones you are looking for http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/scottish_recipes_Aberdeen_Butteries.htm
or did you mean Abernathy biscuits
http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/scottish_recipes_Abernethy_Biscuits.htmBlessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z. Member #35 Butterfly Brain + OH - Foraging Fixers
Not Buying it 2015!0 -
Butterfly_Brain wrote: »I think you mean these if they have yeast in the ones you are looking for http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/scottish_recipes_Aberdeen_Butteries.htm
or did you mean Abernathy biscuits
http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/scottish_recipes_Abernethy_Biscuits.htm
Abernethy biscuits are delicious too, but iirc are sweeter than the butter biscuits the OP's looking for
the butter biscuits that I thought of first must be a regional thingI think I'll have to buy one next time I'm in town & post a pic
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I will
keep looking hunBlessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z. Member #35 Butterfly Brain + OH - Foraging Fixers
Not Buying it 2015!0 -
I've just dug up a Girl Guides cookery book from 1979
that used to be my mum's & that I'd forgotten I had, there's a recipe for 'Aberdeen Biscuits' in it, wonder if they'll turn out anything like the Butter Biscuits :think:
here it is exactly as it's written in the book ...
8oz plain flour
8oz self-raising flour
3oz lard
3oz marg (I think this is where you'd use butter)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
cold water to make a firm dough
mix dry ingredients rub in butter & lard. Mix in just enough water to make a stiff dough. Roll out thin & pr!ck all over. Bake 10-15 minutes in a moderate oven regulo 4.
Miss H Brace 17th Guide Coy
I think the instructions miss out the cutting into rounds & regulo 4 = Gas Mark 4 = 180C
PS there are all sorts of weird & wonderful recipes in the book, including one for gruel!0 -
Swan, you're a genius. I am sure this is the recipe - not a lot of sugar, sounds like it could be the one. Now, this means I will have to go and make it and will let you know how I get on.
I know the biscuits won't be to everyone's taste, but persevere - you'll love them!
Many, many thanks. :T
Mary
xxxMad about cats - or maybe just mad! :rotfl:0 -
iwantanipod wrote: »Swan, you're a genius. I am sure this is the recipe - not a lot of sugar, sounds like it could be the one. Now, this means I will have to go and make it and will let you know how I get on.
I know the biscuits won't be to everyone's taste, but persevere - you'll love them!
Many, many thanks. :T
Mary
xxx
please let me know how it goes even if they're no good, I won't be offended if it's not right & we can keep looking0
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