After a superbly rubbish nights sleep, and I know more to come, I decided I would have a lie in until 11am. I know how terribly lazy of me. But you try going to bed at 1 (couldn't sleep was in too much achi-ness) getting woken up at 4, trying to go back to sleep until 6 and getting woken up by your husband's work alarm at half 7... it's hard work. I also had to check on the babies who are doing extremely well. We have a little runt in the family but he's still getting fed and I am making sure of that daily. So, anyway, with half the day over I decided I should probably do something productive and after picking up the rubbish in the bathroom and giving it a bit of a wipe around I thought of the idea to bake.
I had this idea the other day too but realised I didn't have any butter and it is kinda a main ingredient in any recipe for cakes etc. that I've seen which is why when we went shopping the other day the first thing on the list was butter - that and the fact that my list was automatically put into alphabetical order.
So, it was awesome for me today to know that I have butter and could therefore get on with making some buns, cakes, etc. only problem this time was that we have no eggs left because I used them the other day for eggy bread - which consequently baby didn't like anyway. But the other week I made some butter cookies for a friend as a thank you for looking after our cats so I figured I could easily find a biscuit recipe without eggs, and the awesome thing about it is I can eat the mixture without getting told off.
I did a quick search online and found these 'Simply Jammy Biscuits' recipe on the 'GoodFood' website. It seemed simple enough.
200g Self-raising flour
100g Sugar
100g Butter
1 Egg (oops more on that in a minute)
Jam
Now as you know, I didn't have any eggs so I substituted the egg for 1 tbsp of oil and a splash of milk - sorry no definite measurements for that, just a 'splash'; you can make up your own mind on the splashes you need. But however many I used it worked so I'm all good.
You mix the sugar with the flour, then add the butter and crumble it together so you get 'breadcrumbs' texture. After that you add the oil and splash of milk and splerge it all together. Put some flour on the work top and roll it on the work top if it is easier. Don't use biscuit cutters because that just ruins the feel of the biscuits. Just use your hands. I think you get about 16 out of these ingredients. You want more? You make more.
Grease a tray or use grease proof paper and evenly separate the biscuit dough into small balls and SQUASH it so it is flat. Don't just pat it, SQUASH it. Not too much because you don't want biscuits to be extra thin then pop the staple ingredient in the middle of the biscuit. You'll know you've put too much jam on the top if it starts rolling off the sides and onto the tray.
Pop them in the oven pre-heated gas mark 6 (I usually put the oven on before I start mixing my ingredients together) for 10-15 minutes and voila you have your scrumm-il-icious biscuits; which we all agreed are fan-tabby-tasticly awesome.
You have no idea how many times I had to retype the word 'flour' because I kept writing 'flower'.
Extra Linkage:
Simple Jammy Biscuits - Good Food
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