Name: Ballymaloe Cheese Biscuits
Yield: Makes 25–30 biscuits
Cuisine: Ireland
Ingredients: ½ teasp. salt; 110 g/4 ozs/1 cup brown flour; 30 g/1 oz/2 tablesp. butter; ½ teasp. baking powder; water as needed, 5 tablesp. approx.; 1 tablesp. cream; 110 g/4 ozs/1 cup white flour

Preparation info

Makes
25–30
biscuits

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Delicious

By Darina Allen

Published 1989

About

We serve these biscuits with our Irish farmhouse cheese trolley in the Ballymaloe restaurant. Although we make them fresh every day, they do keep for several weeks in an airtight tin and also freeze well.

Ingredients

110 g/4 ozs/1 cup brown flour
110

Method

Mix the brown and white flour together and add the salt and baking powder. Rub in the butter and moisten with cream and enough water to make a firm dough.

Roll out to 3 mm/⅛ inch thick approx. Pric