Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, sedgemoor biscuits. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook sedgemoor biscuits using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sedgemoor biscuits:
- Take 100 g dried currants or raisins
- Make ready 20 g brandy
- Make ready 100 g wholemeal flour
- Take 120 g plain flour
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready 110 g butter, softened
- Take 110 g caster sugar
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Get 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- Get 1/4 tsp mixed spice
- Make ready 1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped
- Prepare 1 large egg, beaten
- Get For the icing:
- Get 90 g icing sugar
- Take 4 tsp milk
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Steps 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.
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