Biscuits III

Name: Biscuits III
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1¼ cups (175 g/6.2 oz) all-purpose flour; ¼ cup (55 g) caster sugar; 2 tablespoons butter, softened; 1 egg yolk; 2 tablespoons milk

This recipe is adapted from the public domain cookbook Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management.

20 min

Ingredients

1¼ cups (175 g/6.2 oz) all-purpose flour
¼ cup (55 g) caster sugar
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons milk

Steps

Preheat the oven to 220 C. Grease a baking pan.
Beat the egg and milk together in a bowl.
Mix the other ingredients into the egg mixture to form a soft dough.
Roll out the dough to 5 mm and cut out into very thin biscuits with a round cookie cutter.
Place the biscuits on the baking pan.
Bake for 6 minutes until golden.
Take the biscuits out of the oven and leave them to cool.

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Adapted from “Biscuits III” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.