Mama’s tea biscuits
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- Mogau Seshoene
- Makes 40
- Easy
- 20 minutes
- 10–15 minutes
“Bake extra because your visitors will want to take some home.” – Mogau Seshoene
Ingredients
- 500 g butter
- 225 g caster sugar
- 2 t vanilla extract
- 4 free-range eggs
- 975 g cake flour
- 3 t baking powder
- 1 t bicarbonate of soda
- 1 t cream of tartar
Cooking Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C and grease a baking tray. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
2. Add the vanilla and beat in the eggs, one at a time.
3. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and cream of tartar.
4. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet, stirring. Fill a cookie press with the dough and press out cookies onto the baking tray, 3–5 cm apart. Bake for 12–15 minutes until golden brown.
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Photographs: Jan Ras
Production: Bianca Strydom
Food assistant: Ellen Schwerdtfeger
This recipe doesn’t make sense : nearly 1 kg of flour dienst make for only 40 biscuits. And the ratio wet and dry ingredients doesn’t work out. I tried it and my friends tried it. Unfortunately there must be a mistake with the recipe,