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Lunaness

Joined: 11 Feb 2008
Posts: 46
Location: Gloucestershire

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 08 11:48 am Post subject: Fork Biscuits (not handles)

Hello all

I've just made a couple of batches of these, the won't last long when the kids get home from school ~ I remember eating them when I was a nipper.

A very quick & simple recipe (original recipe from Mary Berry), thought I'd share...

Fork Biscuits - makes 16

100g margarine
50g caster sugar
120g SR flour
15 g cocoa

Preheat oven to 180/350/gas 4, lightly grease 2 baking trays.

Measure margarine into a bowl & soften with a wooden spoon. Gradually beat in sugar & then mix in flour & cocoa. Bring the mixture together with your hands to form a ball. Form dough into balls about the size of a walnut & place well apart on prepared baking trays. Dip a fork in a little water & use this to flatten the biscuits. Bake in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes until browned. Lift off baking tray & leave to cool completely on a wire rack.

Orange fork biscuits
As above but use 150g of flour & add the grated rind of one orange.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42208
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 08 12:13 pm Post subject:
Ahh, I think those are what my mum used to call chocolate shorties. She used to sandwich them together in pairs with chocolate icing in the middle.

Lunaness

Joined: 11 Feb 2008
Posts: 46
Location: Gloucestershire

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 08 12:36 pm Post subject:
They're delicious! Only one problem...how do I stop myself from eating them all before the kids get home?

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 08 1:30 pm Post subject:

Lunaness wrote:

They're delicious! Only one problem...how do I stop myself from eating them all before the kids get home?

Why do you want to? Are you on a diet?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 08 1:34 pm Post subject:

Lunaness wrote:

They're delicious! Only one problem...how do I stop myself from eating them all before the kids get home?

Weeeell. There are two possible approaches.
The first is to stop eating them.
The second is to snaffle the lot and make some more before the kids get home...

Lunaness

Joined: 11 Feb 2008
Posts: 46
Location: Gloucestershire

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 08 1:36 pm Post subject:
Diet? Please refrain from swearing at me! I told the kids when I took them to school this morning that I'd refill the biscuit barrel & cake tin...I'll have a riot on my hands if there's nothing here when they get back!

Lunaness

Joined: 11 Feb 2008
Posts: 46
Location: Gloucestershire

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 08 1:38 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

Weeeell. There are two possible approaches.
The first is to stop eating them.

Easier said than done!

judith wrote:

The second is to snaffle the lot and make some more before the kids get home...

I did take the precaution of making 2 batches just in case...all that seems to have achieved is me thinking I can eat more without them noticing!

PMT cravings don't help the dilema either!

MIC

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 24

Posted: Wed Mar 19, 08 8:40 pm Post subject:
Great Biccis, Used to make lots of them for the Kids... well ok it was an excuse, for me really. Also did orange & lemon flavours by adding grated rind. The Kids will never forget the time I 'GRILLED' them, as we were round at my girlfriends & I got the wrong setting on the cooker MIC

Thriftycook

Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Posts: 71
Location: Worcester

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 08 5:58 pm Post subject:

I make these a lot, I do a chocolate version too (replace some of the flour with cocoa). I have to say though it seems a waste of time making biscuits yourself if you are going to put margarine in them-leave that to the food manufacturers

Use butter, (unless you're vegan), they'll taste even better.

Edit: I see you already do a chocolate version

Try them without cocoa-make up the difference with flour.

cinders

Joined: 04 Jun 2007
Posts: 2437
Location: norfolk The daft old bat club

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 08 6:22 pm Post subject:
mmmmm will have to make some maybe tomorrow.Seeing it suppose to rain. Got to put a bet or two on first

ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 2469
Location: Beds

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 08 8:38 pm Post subject:
wonder where that recipe was first published? it's in my notebook as fork biscuits too except that I make them with butter. kids love them

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