Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Plain Biscuits

The term biscuit refers to different forms and shapes to soft and hard ones. They can be either sweet or savory and mostly are eaten as a snack. Biscuits or cookies are used interchangeably and may or may not contain choice of fillings. These are delightful when they are golden crusty both top and bottom. 

Ingredients
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Flour                     1 1/2 cups
Baking Powder             pinch
Sugar Powdered            1/2 cup
Milk Cold                 1/3 cup 
Butter Melted             3/4 cup        

Method
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  • Sift flour and baking powder. Keep aside.
  • Beat powdered sugar and melted butter till light and fluffy.
  • Now slowly add in the sifted flour and baking powder and fold in the mixture with a spatula. ( Donot run the mixer or the beater. Just fold in with the help of a spatula.)
  • Once all the ingredients are folded well, add cold milk and mix.
  • Knead to a hard dough and keep covered with damp kitchen towel for about an hour. Keep aside covered.
  • After an hour, knead once again and divide into equal small portions.
  • These small portions can be shaped into ones choice or preference and place them on a cookie sheet.
  • Preheat the oven at 250 degrees. Once preheated place the cookie sheet in the oven and bake till light brown. (check in between to avoid over browning)
  • Once the biscuits are nicely golden, switch off , remove from oven and transfer them to wire rack to cool.
  • When time to serve as an evening snack, as an accompaniment to tea or dunk in the milk, these biscuits taste so good and it would be hmmnnn hmmnnnn good.