Name: Featherlight Cheese Biscuits
Ingredients: 4 oz (100 g) plain wholemeal flour.; 2 teaspoons (2 x 5 ml spoon) paprika (or variations - either 1 rounded teaspoon (2 x 5 ml spoon) curry powder or 1 level teaspoon (5 ml spoon) caraway seeds); 4 oz (100 g) butter or margarine; 2 egg yolks; 2 level teaspoons (2 x 5 ml spoon) baking powder; 6 oz (150 g) grated cheese

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

About

The adults can nibble these with their Christmas drinks and the children, who love making them, can just nibble them! They will keep crisp in an airtight tin.

Ingredients

6 oz (150 g) grated cheese
4 oz (100

Method

Preheat oven to Gas Mark 7/425°F/220°C. Put the grated cheese into a mixing bowl. Sift the flour with the baking powder and paprika into the cheese. Cut the butter into small pieces and rub into the flour and cheese with your fingertips. Add the egg yolks and mix with a wooden spoon to

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