Easter Recipes > Traditional Spicy Easter Biscuits
1/2 cup superfine sugar
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon powdered cinnamon (or ginger)
2 tablespoons currants (or caraway seeds)
4 tablespoons butter
pinch of salt
(see measure conversions for more information)
- Rub the butter in.
- Stir in the sugar.
- Separate the eggs.
- Beat the yolks and add to the mixture.
- If it is too dry add 1 egg white.
- Add the currants.
- Roll out very thinly and cut out biscuits with a fancy cutter.
- Put onto a greased baking tray.
- Cook in a cool oven for about 15 minutes or until very pale brown in color.
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How to make spicy Easter biscuits from Shrewsbury:
One of the few remaining known recipes for spicy festive biscuits. Virtually every region in Britain had a variation on this recipe but most have now been lost.
Ingredients
2 cups flour1/2 cup superfine sugar
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon powdered cinnamon (or ginger)
2 tablespoons currants (or caraway seeds)
4 tablespoons butter
pinch of salt
(see measure conversions for more information)
Method
- Sieve the flour, cinnamon and salt into a basin.- Rub the butter in.
- Stir in the sugar.
- Separate the eggs.
- Beat the yolks and add to the mixture.
- If it is too dry add 1 egg white.
- Add the currants.
- Roll out very thinly and cut out biscuits with a fancy cutter.
- Put onto a greased baking tray.
- Cook in a cool oven for about 15 minutes or until very pale brown in color.
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