Today for some reason, I had a very strong desire for American Biscuits…no idea why, but I certainly could not resist the urge to make some! Very simple if you have the right ingredients.
Ingredients :
- 250g of Plain Flour
- 1 Tablespoon of Butter
- 1 Tablespoon of Vegetable fat
- 1 Natural yoghurt (in UK : )
- A little of Whole Milk
- 1 teaspoon of Salt
- 4 teaspoons of Baking Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of Bicarbonate of soda
How to Make:
- Set the oven to 220 degrees celsius (NOT Fan assisted is better)
- Mix all the dry ingredient with the flour in a large bowl and make sure it is all well mixed and homogenous
- Crush the butter and vegetable fat with your fingers in the flour and make a crumble
- Mix the Yogurt and a little bit of whole milk to make approx 230ml of a silky mixture
- Make a small well in the middle of the crumble
- Incorporate the liquid into the crumble until you get some sort of dough. It will be moist but not too sticky.
- Flour your hands and make a ball with the dough
- Roll the dough on the worktop until it is 2cm thick
- Cut 8cm wide disks with cutting forms
- You can use the remainder of pastry to reform a ball, re-roll and re-cut. Until all dough is used up. Probably 6 large 8cm biscuits or twice as much small ones.
- Put the 2cmX8cm disks on a cooking tray with silicone sheet or parchment paper
- Cook for 10 to 15 minutes or until Golden Brown.
- Take out of the oven and let cool on a wire rack.
- Eat warm with butter only or with butter and jam ….
The kids certainly like it and Manu would break a diet for some warm biscuits
