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Lemon Biscuit Recipe

Vegetarian
Lemon Biscuit Recipe
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Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 75g/3oz softened butter
  • 75g/3oz caster sugar
  • 150g/6oz plain flour
  • ¼ tsp sea salt
  • Grated peel from 1 unwaxed lemon
  • 1 egg yolk
  • Some cold water (this may be needed)
  • 1 tbsp icing sugar

Lemon gives a delicate flavour to these fine bisuits, great with a cup of tea and easy to make

Method

01
Pre-heat the oven to165oC/ 330oF and lightly oil 2 – 3 baking trays.
02
Cream butter and sugar together, then add the rest of the ingredients to the bowl and stir together with a wooden spoon. It will be slightly crumbly, but with a bit of kneading and perhaps a teaspoon or two of cold water, you will get a light paste.
03
Lightly flour a surface and roll out to about½ cm thick and cut into shapes.
04
Put the shapes on the baking trays and bake for 7 – 10 minutes, but watch them carefully as they will suddenly be cooked. We used an Aga and found that the back of the tray cooked very quickly and some got burnt the first time around.
05
Remove from oven when just turning golden, then leave to cool a bit before carefully transferring to a wire cooking rack. Sprinkle with icing sugar in a tea strainer.