Easter Biscuits
Ingredients
- 110g/4oz caster sugar
- 110g/4oz butter
- 1 egg separated
- 225g/8oz plain flour
- 55g/2ozcurrants
- 30g/1oz candied peel
- about 3tbsp milk
- good pinch of mixed spice
- extra caster sugar to finish
- Preheat the oven 160C/325F/Gas 3 and grease a baking sheet.
- Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy and beat in the egg yolk
- Sieve the flour and fold into the mixture together with the mixed spice, currants and peel. Add just enough milk to make a stiff dough.
- Roll out the dough and cut out the biscuits with a fluted cutter. Place them on the prepared baking sheet and bake for about 10 mins.
- Remove, brush with the egg white, sprinkle with sugar and return to the oven for 5-10 minutes until they are a pale golden brown.
- Remove from the tray and cool on a wire rack