Old Style Diary Archive - JUL 05

MATH

I use a similar recipe for Everyday Biscuits (I call the Refrigerator Biccies) It has a little more suger than Queenie's recipe but half the fat. The method is bascially the same.

Makes 45 biscuits

Basic Mix
8oz Plain Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
4oz Butter
60z Sugar
1 egg

Additions (Choose One)
1tsp Vanilla Essence
2oz Desicated Coconut
2oz Grated Plain Chocolate
1 1/2 tsp Ground ginger or Mixed Spice
2oz Raisins or Mixed Peel


Sift flour and baking powder and rub in the butter.

Add sugar. Mix to a dough with your chosen addition.

Shape into a sausage and roll up into foil. Work back and forth until 2 inch in diameter.

Chill for 1 hr

Slice off as many biscuits as you wish and bake on a baking sheet for 10-12 mins @ 190 c.

The mix keeps for about a week in the fridge or can be frozen and thawed as you need it. HTH

Bargainloverbec

Hello!

Got the morning off work today so having a lovely OS day so far. Put the washing on first thing then settled down to a spot of Christmas card making. Only managed to do four so far so it's just as well it's only July!

I might try Queenie's biscuit recipe later although I'm not supposed to be eating 'naughty' food until after the Race for Life next Sunday.

Have a lovely day everyone..

squeaky

elona wrote:

DH has just informed me that he does not like liver and onions (after I bought 2 packs that are in freezer) - No one else likes it so guess who will be eating it tomorrow!

Does anyone like pate?

squeaky

I'm having a very OS day today. Just made over 120 new posts and now have to go and hide them all out of the way. Ain't indexing fun?

Queenie

kscour wrote:

Hi Queenie
Thats a brilliant receipe - is it 10mins cooking time if they are freshly made & chilled rather than defrosted - I have a feeling it will be but I wanted to make sure.
Thanks
K.

Yep ... just 10 little minutes But, do keep an eye on them because they don't need to be browned as such - very much like shortbread. They will be "soft" when you take them from the oven, but as soon as they cool they crisp up beautifully

HTH

MATH - oooooh :T thanks for your recipe Tempted by the less fat version ... but as it's got egg in it, would that increase the cholesterol?

apprentice_tycoon

omega wrote:

lol@apprentice tycoon (2nd para) - hope you enjoyed your night out!

This 'night out' was from 7 pm till 8.30, we both needed to change into something - ahem - a little more comfortable - (elasticated waists) then watched Gordon Ramsey - we really know how to live it up in this house when the kids are away

apprentice_tycoon

squeaky wrote:

I'm having a very OS day today. Just made over 120 new posts and now have to go and hide them all out of the way. Ain't indexing fun?

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Old Style is like a household encyclopaedia - well done squeaks on getting all these disparate bits of info into one place :T

Rage_in_Eden

soba wrote:

Looking forward to the remains of yeasterday's HM Manchester tart for lunch, .

Oi! You just be careful who you're calling a tart!!!!!

Urmston and Mancunian and proud of it (apart from when those dreadful Gallagher brothers are about......)

Rage_in_Eden

oh oh oh oh :j :j :j

I've got another star - twinkle twinkle :T

Queenie

:T Yay!! Congrats on your 2nd star Rage :j :j