Tuesday 17 August 2010

Garibaldi Biscuits

Due to their appearance Garibaldi biscuits have always been known as 'squashed fly' biscuits in my family but they taste much nicer than their name implies! Relatively simple to make too, if you can manage pastry then you'll manage these!

Garibaldi Biscuits
Ingredients
100 g plain flour (I used half plain, half wholemeal spelt)
50 g butter
1 tsp apple juice concentrate
a little water
a generous amount of currants

Recipe
1. Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles bread crumbs.
2. Add the apple juice concentrate and enough water to form a dough.
3. Chill the dough in the fridge for half an hour or so.
4. Divide the mixture into two. Roll one half out as thinly as possible in a rectangular shape and transfer to a greased baking sheet. (N.B. Use a baking sheet with no sides so that you can roll over it with the rolling pin.)
5. Sprinkle generous amounts of currants over the rolled out dough.
6. Roll out the second half of the dough to roughly the same size and thickness.
7. Using a pastry brush wet the edges of the dough on the baking sheet with water.
8. Place the second piece of dough on top of the first. Roll with a rolling pin until the currants are just showing through.
9. Score with a knife into rectangular pieces (but don't cut through).
10. Bake for fifteen minutes at gas mark 5 (375 deg F / 190 deg C) until golden brown.
11. Cool and then break along the score marks.

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