Cheese and Anchovy Biscuits

Name: Cheese and Anchovy Biscuits
Yield: Makes 45-60
Ingredients: 175 g/6 oz unsalted butter; 2 x 50 g/2 oz tins anchovy fillets; 100 g/4 oz strong Cheddar cheese, grated; freshly grated Parmesan cheese, for sprinkling; 2 teaspoons caster sugar; 225 g/8 oz plain flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 4-5 pinches cayenne pepper

Preparation info

Makes
45-60

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Josceline Dimbleby’s Complete Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1997

About

People really appreciate freshly made nibbles to eat with drinks. For these light and thin savoury biscuits you can make the dough as far in advance as you like and keep it in a long roll in the freezer, ready to be quickly made into biscuits.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder

Pescatarian
Cookies

Method

Sift the flour, baking powder, cayenne pepper and sugar into a bowl.

Cut the butter into small pieces and rub into the flour until crumbly. Drain the oil from the anchovies into the mixture, slice the anchovy fillets into very small pieces and stir them into the mixture with the grated Cheddar. Using floured hands, gather up the dough into 2 balls and form each ball into a long roll, ei