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Available for over a year
Ingredients: • 175g plain flour plus extra for dusting • 1 tsp baking powder • 125g light muscovado sugar • 2 eggs beaten • 50g mixed dried fruit (Sultanas, raisins and mixed peel) • 50g chestnuts (cooked vacuum packed ones) chopped roughly • Sprinkle of cinnamon • Sprinkle of nutmeg Method: • Preheat your oven to 180 c • Pop some grease proof paper onto your baking tray. • Mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl. • Add in your eggs, chestnuts and fruit and mix well with a spoon. • Bring the dough together with your hands and place onto a lightly floured surface. • Make into a fairly flat, sausage like shape. ( Quite rectangular ) • Place onto a baking tray and cook for 20 minutes. • After 20 minutes, turn down your oven to 140c, place your dough onto a chopping board and cut into 1cm thick biscuits. (This stage you can freeze once cooled) • Lay them flat back onto the baking tray and place back into the oven for 15 minutes • Pop onto a wire rack to cool or even eat warm with a festive tipple/hot drink of your choice.
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