Guest guest Posted November 9, 2001 Report Share Posted November 9, 2001 Has anyone got a foolproof biscuit recipe? I need the kind of dough that you can give it to kids so they can roll it out, use shape cutters, bung it on a tray, into the oven then decorate and eat the cooked biscuits later. -- Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 2001 Report Share Posted November 9, 2001 I usually make a shortbread dough for this kind of thing. J -----Original Message----- From: Sue Woollett [sMTP:sue.ol@...] Has anyone got a foolproof biscuit recipe? I need the kind of dough that you can give it to kids so they can roll it out, use shape cutters, bung it on a tray, into the oven then decorate and eat the cooked biscuits later. -- Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 2001 Report Share Posted November 9, 2001 If you have Nigella's Domestic Goddess book, the biscuit recipe in the children's chapter is very good. If you don't have it, I'll get off my lazy backside and dig it out and post it!! Vicki At 12:51 09/11/01, you wrote: >I usually make a shortbread dough for this kind of thing. >J > >-----Original Message----- >From: Sue Woollett [sMTP:sue.ol@...] >Has anyone got a foolproof biscuit recipe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 2001 Report Share Posted November 9, 2001 Please do dig it out and post it, Vicki! I have just bought a load of Xmas cookie cutters and DD1 is dying to try them out but my cookbooks are in the attic (DH is " renovating " the utility room!) at the mo. TIA Francesca RE: Biscuit recipe needed > If you have Nigella's Domestic Goddess book, the biscuit recipe in the > children's chapter is very good. If you don't have it, I'll get off my > lazy backside and dig it out and post it!! > > Vicki > > At 12:51 09/11/01, you wrote: > >I usually make a shortbread dough for this kind of thing. > >J > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Sue Woollett [sMTP:sue.ol@...] > >Has anyone got a foolproof biscuit recipe? > > > *** NCT enquiry line - 0 *** > > Live chat http://www.yahoogroups.com/chat/nct-coffee > > Have you found out about all the other groups for the NCT online? > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2001 Report Share Posted November 10, 2001 OK, here goes: Butter cut-out biscuits: 175g soft unsalted butter 200g caster sugar 2 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 400g plain flour (she recommends italian 00) 1tsp baking powder 1tsp salt 300g icing sugar, sieved, and food colourings biscuit cutters 2 baking sheets, greased or lined Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and moving towards moussiness, then beat in the eggs and vanilla. In another bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt [DS does this bit!]. Add the dry ingredients to the butter and eggs, and mix gently but surely. If you think the finished mixture is too sticky to be rolled out, add more flour, but do so sparingly as too much will make the dough tough. Halve the dough, form into fat discs, wrap each half in clingfilm and rest in teh fridge for at least 1 hour. Sprinkle a suitable surface with flour, place a disc of dough on it (not taking out the other half until you've finished with the half)[bossy!] and sprinkle a little more flour on top of that. Then roll it out ot a thickness of about 1/2 cm. Cut into shapes, dipping the cutter into flour as you go, and place the biscuits on a baking sheet. Bake for 8-12 mins, by which time they will be lightly golden around the edges. Cool on a rack and continue with the rest of the dough [which also freezes well if the first half makes enough biscuits for you, btw]. When they're all fully coooled, you can get on with the icing. Put a couple of tablespoons of just-not-boiling water into a large bowl, add the sieved icing sugar and mix together, adding more water as you need to form a thick paste. Colour as desired: let the artistic spirit within you speak, remembering with gratitude that children have very bad taste. There you go! Josh and I spent a happy afternoon doing these the other week. There are photos on http://www.uptails.freeserve.co.uk/cooking.html if you're interested!! Enjoy, Vicki At 21:14 09/11/01, you wrote: >Please do dig it out and post it, Vicki! I have just bought a load of >Xmas cookie cutters and DD1 is dying to try them out but my cookbooks >are in the attic (DH is " renovating " the utility room!) at the mo. > >TIA > >Francesca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2001 Report Share Posted November 10, 2001 >There you go! Josh and I spent a happy afternoon doing these the other >week. There are photos on http://www.uptails.freeserve.co.uk/cooking.html >if you're interested!! GAAH! No there isn't! DH has spent the afternoon teaching himself how to write web pages and, in the process, has deleted most of this one. And I'm too tired and too cold to put it all together again tonight And he hasn't shined the sink and the kitchen's a tip!! PAH! Men!!!! Vicki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 10, 2001 Report Share Posted November 10, 2001 > Please do dig it out and post it, Vicki! I have just bought a load of > Xmas cookie cutters and DD1 is dying to try them out... Just got my stuff delivered from Sainsbury's and guess WHAT!!! My three tubs of Bob the Builder Dough that I thought we'd all make biscuits with tomorrow are not biscuit dough AT ALL! They're good ol' playdough. I can't believe it!!! I can't think of anything I need less than three tubs of sticky Bob playdough, especially with MIL around. OK, maybe I should have realised. But I'm afraid " dough " only means one thing to me and that's biscuits!!! One-track mind there I guess. Karina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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