Wedding biscuits

Name: Wedding biscuits (Empanaditas de boda)
Cuisine: Peruvian
Ingredients: 250 g/9 oz/generous 1 cup lard; 250 g/9 oz/1¼ cups caster (superfine) sugar; 10 ml/2 tsp baking powder; 250 g/9 oz/2¼ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour; 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup toasted sesame seeds; 45 ml/3 tbsp milk; 1 egg yolk; 30 ml/2 tbsp water

Empanaditas de boda

Preparation info

Makes
15

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Peru

By Flor Arcaya de Deliot

Published 2009

About

In some towns in the North Central region these biscuits are sold at local festivals. They are known as ‘wedding biscuits’ because they are most often made for such celebrations, but street vendors also sell them, freshly made, warm and delicious.

Ingredients

250 g/9 oz/2¼ cups self-raising (self-rising) flour
10

Americas
Peru
Cookies
Wedding/Marriage

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6 and grease a large baking sheet.
Sift the flour with the baking powder and stir in the sugar. Make a well in the centre and add the lard, cut into small pieces, and the water. Gradually rub the lard and water in to

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