Irish Blue Biscuits

Name: Irish Blue Biscuits
Yield: Makes about 30
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 1 beaten egg for glazing (optional); 175 g Cashel Blue cheese, crumbled; 1 large egg yolk; 100 g unsalted butter, softened; 50 g blue cornmeal; 125 g plain flour; pinch of salt (depending on saltiness of cheese); pinch of salt (depending on saltiness of cheese)

Preparation info

Makes about
30

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

You don’t need to use Irish cheese – though Cashel Blue does go particularly well here – nor do you need to worry about getting blue cornmeal if it eludes you (though I did find mine at the supermarket): these biscuits are delicious enough made with 175g of flour and with any robust but crumbly, creamy cheese, blue or otherwise.

Ingredients

175 g Cashel Blue cheese, crumbled
100 g unsalted butter, softened
1

Europe
Ireland
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6.

Mix the cheese, butter and egg yolk together and then work in the flour, cornmeal and the salt if you’re using, just enough to form a soft dough. Form the dough into a fat disc, wrap it in clingflim and put in the fridge for 30 minutes or s