Oatmeal Biscuits

Name: Oatmeal Biscuits
Ingredients: 100 ml/4 fl oz egg white (approximately 3 large egg whites); 225 g/8 oz butter, chilled; 1 large pinch of caster sugar; ½ teaspoon salt; 150 g/5 oz medium oatmeal, plus extra for sprinkling; 150 g/5 oz brown flour

Preparation info

Makes About
30–40

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Carved Angel Cookery Book

By Joyce Molyneux

Published 1990

About

These biscuits are similar to digestive biscuits, with a delicious short texture. Like the sesame biscuit dough, I sometimes use this one for canape bases or tartlet cases. For vegetarians, I’ve filled oatmeal tartlets with a vegetable and tomato ragoût, then topped it with a cheese soufflé mixture, which puffs up quickly in a hot oven.

Ingredients

150 g/5 oz brown flour
150 g/5

Savoury
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Mix together the dry ingredients in a bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add enough egg white to form a firm dough. Chill, then roll out on a surface sprinkled with oatmeal to 6 mm/¼ i