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supersprout
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Posts: 4,660
mulch mad!
Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 14, 2007, 14:17:34 »
I'm expecting visitors for tea and would like to make home-made biscuits, straight from the fridge.
I want to have dough ready in the fridge! So looking for the sort of biscuit where you make the dough into a 'log' and put in the fridge, then cut into rounds and put onto a baking sheet when you want to bake a few. Preferred plain; ingredients could include flour, oatmeal, sugar, nuts (including peanuts), butter but no fancy bits, fruit, icing or spices.
Does anyone have a tried and tested recipe please?
Thank you! :)
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HappyCatz
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Posts: 99
Cornwall
Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 14, 2007, 14:25:39 »
Try this basic shortbread recipe, this is for a large quantity so you can cut down accordingly:
500g butter [softened to room temp]
250g caster sugar
650g plain flour
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Beat butter and sugar together until soft, smooth and just combined,
Add flour and vanilla and beat until mixture forms a stiff dough [this is the stage you can put it in the fridge covered in cling film]
Roll out into required shapes 5-7mm thick
Bake for about 15 mins [gas mark 2] until form and pale golden.
This is the butteriest recipe ever, I love the vanilla but it also good with the grated rind and small amount of lemon juice.
Enjoy ;D
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supersprout
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Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 14, 2007, 19:40:25 »
thank you happykatz - that's exactly the sort of thing. Do you have one with nuts?
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tin can
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Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 15, 2007, 11:03:51 »
That sounds easy happycatz- I used to substitute a small amount of cornflour for flour to make the shortbread even shorter. Do you think that would be ok in the fridge too?
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Lady of the Land
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Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 15, 2007, 21:52:06 »
Or Try
Nutty Cookies
6oz Margarine 8oz SR Flour
8oz Brown Sugar 2oz Bran
1 Egg 2oz Chopped Hazelnuts
Cream marg and sugar, add egg and beat well. Stir in flour, bran and hazelnuts. place on floured board and knead until smooth. Divide in half and make each half into roll 8" long. Wrap in greaseproof paper and chill. Cut into 1/4" slices and put onto ungreased trays. Bake at 220oC for 7-10 mins.
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supersprout
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Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 16, 2007, 04:38:59 »
Thank you LL, they'll definitely be in the queue for the oven! ;D
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HappyCatz
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Cornwall
Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 16, 2007, 16:45:51 »
Those nutty cookies sound delicious, will definitely have a go at them. Am always glad to find new recipes ;D
Tin Can, have read about substituting normal flour for cornflour before and I am sure that this would be just fine to go in the fridge but not tried it myself :)
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Mrs Ava
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Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 16, 2007, 18:47:45 »
So how did they go down SS?
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supersprout
Hectare
Posts: 4,660
mulch mad!
Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 16, 2007, 19:31:37 »
Nut one is chilling in a sausage in the fridge - we had oat bran, so used that. Will make the shorties for visit to London on Friday. I have to make samples before serving up to guests, you understand ...
at least once ;D
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supersprout
Hectare
Posts: 4,660
mulch mad!
Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 17, 2007, 07:58:00 »
Lady of the Land's receep, butter substituted for marg, they taste GORGEOUS ;D ;D ;D
Any other tips to make them look as good as they taste ???
biscuit newbie :-[
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Last Edit: January 17, 2007, 08:01:31 by supersprout
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manicscousers
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www.golborne-allotments.co.uk
Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 17, 2007, 15:22:45 »
drool , drool, ;D ;D
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Emagggie
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Out to lunch.
Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 17, 2007, 22:32:12 »
Oh how I long for one of those Sarah, I have been soooooo good for a whole week. But hey, visitors this weekend, I should really make some in readiness and test them....................... ::)
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supersprout
Hectare
Posts: 4,660
mulch mad!
Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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January 21, 2007, 09:24:50 »
Not sure if I got these right happykatz :o
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HappyCatz
Quarter Acre
Posts: 99
Cornwall
Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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Reply #13 on:
January 24, 2007, 09:30:48 »
They look good, hope they were tasty ;D
I usually cut mine out with a scone cutter and sprinkle with icing sugar,
put's me in the mood for some baking ;)
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sawfish
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Re: Best buttery biscuit recipe?
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February 03, 2007, 14:09:03 »
My girlfriends Orcadian and this is her auntie from Westrays shortbread recipe. Its the best I've ever had.
http://www.polkadotmittens.co.uk/recipes/cakes/shortbread.html
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