Nonna's butter biscuits
1 hour 20 min
Nothing like a cold winter afternoon, sipping a cup of tea, dipping these terrific butter biscuits... one after the other! No one can resist them!
Aldo
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Ingredients
Makes: 4 dozen biscuits
- 500g plain flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 120g butter, softened
- 230g sugar
- 1 egg, separated
- 1 drop vanilla extract
- 120ml milk
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:15min ›
Extra time:45min cooling ›
Ready in:1hr20min
- Combine the flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a separate bowl, mix the sugar with the butter. Add the yolk and the vanilla and keep stirring.
- Add the milk slowly. Now add the flour mixture.
- In a third bowl, beat the egg white, then add it to the mixture.
- Make small balls out of the mixture and place them on a baking tray greased with butter.
- Bake them in a pre-heated oven at 180 C / Gas 4 for 15 minutes. Let the biscuits cool before serving. Store in an airtight tin or freeze for up to 3 months.
