Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sedgemoor biscuits. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Sedgemoor biscuits is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Sedgemoor biscuits is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
These Easter cakes are from Sedgemoor in Somerset, in the southwest of England A kind of cross between a scone and shortbread, and liberally studded with currants, they are meant to be nibbled alongside chocolate Easter eggs And whether they are made at home or bought in a bakery, tradition has it that they should be bundled in threes and tied with ribbon, to represent the Holy Trinity. These Easter cakes are from Sedgemoor in Somerset, in the southwest of England A kind of cross between a scone and shortbread, and liberally studded with currants, they are meant to be nibbled alongside chocolate Easter eggs And whether they are made at home or bought in a bakery, tradition has it that they should be bundled in threes and tied with ribbon, to represent the. Sedgemoor is the western part of Somerset, England, the bit southwest of Bath which you don't usually think of as Somerset (but it's probably just my geography unusually shoddy).
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sedgemoor biscuits using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Sedgemoor biscuits:
- Get 100 g dried currants or raisins
- Take 20 g brandy
- Take 100 g wholemeal flour
- Prepare 120 g plain flour
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Take 110 g butter, softened
- Make ready 110 g caster sugar
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Get 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- Prepare 1/4 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare 1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped
- Take 1 large egg, beaten
- Prepare For the icing:
- Take 90 g icing sugar
- Prepare 4 tsp milk
A recipe for Sedgemoor Easter Biscuits. Ingredients include all-purpose flour, cubed butter and milk. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
Instructions to make Sedgemoor biscuits:
- Place the currants in a bowl or a zip lock bag, heat up the brandy in the microwave and pour it over the currants. Seal the bag or cover the bowl.
- Mix both flours with the salt, dice in the butter and mix with an electric mixer until it resembles coarse crumbs. Stir the spices and vanilla seeds from half the pod (leave the rest for the icing) into the caster sugar and add to the flour mixture. Add the egg and the currants and mix on low speed until it all just blends together – it will look very much like wet sand. Turn the dough onto a well-floured surface and knead into a ball.
- Roll it out to a disc about 1 ½ - 2cm thick. Using a 6cm round cookie cutter (scalloped if you have one) cut the biscuits and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment. They can go quite close together as they only spread a little.
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Bake the biscuits for 20 minutes until set and pale golden.
- For the icing, mix the remaining vanilla seeds into milk in a small cup, warm it up a little in the microwave and pour into a bowl with icing sugar, beating well until smooth.
- Remove the biscuits from the oven and brush them with icing straight away. Leave them to set and brush another layer on top. Leave them to cool completely.
Using a box grater, grate butter over the flour. Sedgemoor is the western part of Somerset, England, southwest of Bath. They do a good Easter biscuit! This particular recipe uses a mix of wholemeal and plain white flours and it is a winner as the biscuits taste more interestingly crunchy and earthy, less like something you might find next to your coffee cup in any old café." Sedgemoor is a coastal region of Somerset, firmly in the 'West Country'. Moist, lightly sweet biscuits are just perfect for breakfast or a cup of tea in the afternoon.
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