Baking Cinnamon Biscuits

[matgb]

So, SB gets home from Liberal Drinks (Manchester), several sheets to the wind and craving biscuits. So I baked biscuits. Loosely based on a recipe for Ginger Nuts from Delia (for USians, if you've not heard of her, she's Alton Brown in a twin set. Who runs a football team as a hobby. Also, they're a type of biscuit. Which is sort of like a cookie, but not. And yes, we get the 'nuts' joke).

2 oz Self Raising Flour
1 (large) teaspoon of ground Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda
1 oz granulated sugar
1 oz butter/margerine
1 tablespoon golden syrup
Preheat oven to 190C (375F apparently). Grease a baking tray (I use sunflower oil and spread it out with my fingers, it works, it's cheap, and I'm lazy).

Sieve the flour, cinnamon and bicarb into a mixing bowl. Add the sugar, grate in the butter (seriously, grate it with a cheese grater, saves loads of time), then rub it in until you get a crumbly mix.

Now add the syrup. If you're not sure, less syrup is good, if you put in too much (as I did in the ones I just took out the oven) then they spread too much and don't crack properly on the surface. Stir in, then you'll probably need to use your fingers to squash it all together near the end. If it's sticky, add more flour. Seriously, that matters.

Now cut em up. Either 8 large bikkits or 16 small ones (I tend to make 4 large, 8 small).

Put em in the top of the oven for 10 minutes or so. Don't overcookem. If you do, you'll get a much darker brown colour and a very dry taste. Still edible (*munch*) but not as yummy.

When they're done, take them out of the oven, leave them to cool in the tray for a little bit (they need to firm), then transfer them to a wire rack to cool properly.

I'd do a picture, but I both overcooked them and used too much syrup, so they look a bit of a mess. Oops. Still taste OK.

Eat. If there are any left (weirdo), then store them in an airtight container. There are never any left in this house. miss_s_b eats them all.

(Crossposted to OMNOMNOM on DreamWidth)

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Several sheets to the wind???!!!

Possibly a small pillowcase!
Cheeky git.
No Hot Liberal Action for YOU :P

[matgb]

You were slightly inebriated when I picked you up from work. Pisshead.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

It's not my fault those guys who had been made redundant kept buying me drinks!

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that even Americans know who Delia is.

[matgb]

Maybe. I find with these things that assumption is a bad plan.

I had meant to link to the video of her doing that 'inspiration' thing on the football pitch, but forgot.