DIGESTIVE BISCUITS

                                                                   DIAMOND      


I know that these can be bought easily from just about any where but home made ones are so much tastier than even the best of the “boughten” ones as the lady who taught me to bake them used to say. I have been using this recipe since I was a child. I hope you like it.


4oz fine or medium oatmeal (not porridge oats)

2 oz plain flour

2 and a half oz wholemeal flour

half a teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

4 oz of butter cut in to small pieces

1 tablespoon of granulated sugar

1 egg whisked well

Pre heat the oven to 200oC. Mix together the oatmeal, flours,salt and the bicarbonate of soda. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles bread crumbs. Add the egg and the sugar and mix to form a dough then roll out thinly on a floured surface and using 3”cutter form the biscuits, place on a greased baking sheet and bake for about 8 minutes or until the biscuits are golden brown. Leave them to cool on a rack in a warm place and store in an air tight tin. This amount makes about 18 biscuits.

Once cool the biscuits can be dipped in chocolate for a tea time treat,we prefer ours with cheese these days but when my son was small he loved the chocolate version,specially if they had been half dipped in melted caramac.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you tell you Diamond is back,isn,t he a beauty.