Hot Discs

Name: Hot Discs
Yield: Makes about 75
Ingredients: 250 g plain flour; ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper; 1 heaped teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon ground coriander; ¼ teaspoon ground cumin; zest of 1 lime, very finely grated; 25 g cold unsalted butter, diced; 100 ml hot milk

Preparation info

Makes about
75

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to be a Domestic Goddess

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

Think of these as a cross between tortilla chips and mini-poppadoms, the sort of biscuits that are perfect for dipping into salsa, hoummos or guacamole. Leave the seasonings out (bar the salt) and you have nineteenth-century Mereworth biscuits, to be eaten with soft cheese or the creamiest, unsalted butter.

Ingredients

250 g plain flour
1 heaped teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon

Spicy
Vegetarian
Cookies

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 7. Put the flour, salt, cayenne, cumin and coriander in a bowl and rub in the butter as you would for pastry. Add the zest and then gradually pour in the milk until you’ve got a firm but soft dough. Roll out one half of this as thin as you can: it sho