Use some of the butter to grease a baking sheet, then dust it lightly with flour. Put the rest of the flour, the sugar and the egg in a bowl or food-processor and mix for a few seconds, then add the butter and mix until a ball of dough is formed.

On a floured work-top, roll out the pastry to a little more than the thickness of a pound coin. Cut out 24 biscuits with a pastry cutter and then cut a hole out of the middle out of

Use some of the butter to grease a baking sheet, then dust it lightly with flour. Put the rest of the flour, the sugar and the egg in a bowl or food-processor and mix for a few seconds, then add the butter and mix until a ball of dough is formed.

On a floured work-top, roll out the pastry to a little more than the thickness of a pound coin. Cut out 24 biscuits with a pastry cutter and then cut a hole out of the middle out of