Baking Day

In an effort to conseve electric, if I plan on using the oven for dinner I try to utilse it for baking as well,

today I did Orange Biscuits, Crunchy Jumbles and a Multi Grain Loaf.

Like many households biscuits dont last long, so once cooled I put half the batch into the biscuit box and the remainder go into zip lock bags and hidden away this way I can do a 2 week batch of biscuits in one go.

Crunchy Jumbles

4oz butter or margarine at room temp

8oz caster sugar

1 egg

1tsp vanilla essence

5oz plain flour

1/2tsp bicarbonated soda

pinch of salt

2oz crisped rice cereal

6oz chocolate chips

cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, beat in egg and vanilla, sift over the flour bicarbonate of soda and salt, fold in carefully, add the cereal and chocolate chips, stir thouroughly , drop spoonfulls of the mixture 1-2inch apart on baking sheets, bake until golden at 350F/ 180C/ Gas 4 for about 10-12 mins, Transfer to a rack to cool. makes about 36.

Orange Biscuits

4oz butter or margarine at room temp

7oz sugar

2 egg yolks

1 tablespoon fresh orange juice

grated rind of 1 large orange

7oz plain flour

1 tbl cornflour

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

cream the butter and suger until light and fluffy, add the yolks orange juice and rind and continue beating to blend set aside, In another bowl sift together the flour cornflur salt and baking powder, add to the butter mixture and stir until it forms a dough, wrap the dough in greaseproof paper and pop it in the fridge for a couple of hours, roll out spoonfulls of the dough into balls and place 1-2 in apart on baking sheets, press down with a fork, Bake until golden brown 8-10 mins at 375F/ 190C/ gas 5, transfer to a cooking rack. makes about 30.