With everyone out of the house, I decided to make a big batch of biscuits, enough to fill a large tin. It is always best to do this when the family is not at home as they love hot cookies so much that about half of them vanish before they are cool.
FOOL PROOF COOKIES
4 OZ BUTTER
2 OZ CASTER SUGAR
4 OZ PLAIN FLOUR
2 OZ RAISINS
A FEW DROPS OF VANILLA ESSENCE
Cream butter and sugar till pale and fluffy, add essence. Stir in the raisins and flour.
Roll into balls about the size of a walnut and place on a greased baking sheet .then press down with a fork dipped in hot water. Bake in the oven at 180c for about twenty minutes. Move carefully to wire cooling tray. Job done. You can substitute chocolate chips instead of raisins if you like.
This quantity makes about fifteen, to fill my cookie tin I multiply every thing by three.
The cat, Twiggy is in her element at the moment as she loves summertime, the windows are open till late and she sits for hours watching hedgehogs, foxes and badgers from the safety of the window sill. She sleeps in the shade of old fruit trees when it's too hot, or in one of her two tree houses. If she tires of those pleasures she rolls for hours on a large shaggy catnip plant until she gets as high as a kite. In other words she is spoiled rotten. I do wish however that she would desist from expressing her gratitude by leaving the half chewed body parts of dead rodents in inopportune places. Under the breakfast table for instance or much worse on the bed, not that I am afraid of mice you understand, but it certainly puts you off your toast and strawberry jam at breakfast.
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