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Date Posted: 09:33:41 08/12/11 Fri
Author: Gilly
Subject: Gorgeous biscuit recipe

Orange & Almond biscuits (or cookies depending on what you want)

This gives a very delicately flavoured biscuit.

4oz soft butter
4oz soft brown sugar
6oz plain flour
2oz ground almonds
1 egg (medium to large in size)
Zest and juice from an orange, about a medium sized one, larger than a Satsuma but not as large as a big Jaffa, unless you want a more intense orange flavour in which case you may well need to add a bit more flour or ground almonds to the mixture.
� teaspoon baking powder
� teaspoon salt
Almond slivers as required.

Cream the butter and sugar together and then add the orange zest (you need all the zest from the orange, I used a tiny little nutmeg grater) and the juice and cream together.

Add the egg and mix it all well

Sift the flour, ground almonds, salt & baking powder into the mix and mix everything together well and add the slivered almonds if using. If the mixture is a bit sticky, add either a tad more flour or ground almonds. The combination of flour to almonds isn�t written in stone, if you like your biscuits more almondy then cut down the amount of flour and add more ground almonds, but keep it at 8oz in total

You then have a choice � carefully roll the entire mix on a lightly floured board until it is about 2� wide and sausage shaped and wrap in greaseproof paper and then pop in the fridge for a couple of hours to firm up, or roll walnut-sized pieces in your hands and put on a greased baking tray, well spaced (you will probably need 2 trays as the mix will give about 24 cookies) and then squidge them a bit with your finger or a fork. If you have chilled it, slice it fairly thinly and put on baking trays, still well spaced. You will definitely need 2 trays for that.

Heat the oven to about 190oC and put the trays in the oven. If you are making biscuits check after about 7 or 8 minutes, you want them a light golden brown, if you are making cookies then about 10-12 minutes. Leave to cool slightly before taking them off the trays otherwise they will break. The thin biscuits would be nice eaten as an addition to a dessert of fruit and cream or ice-cream.

If you have any lemon essence, a small amount could be added when creaming the orange juice and zest into the creamed butter/sugar, which will then give you St Clement biscuits.

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Replies:

Oops -- Gilly, 11:42:07 09/02/11 Fri
Re: Gorgeous biscuit recipe -- Ani, 12:35:47 09/02/11 Fri
Oatcakes -- BB, 01:38:22 09/03/11 Sat
- Re: Oatcakes -- Gilly, 09:38:09 09/03/11 Sat