Sugar Biscuits - complete with bouganvillia decoration ;)Hubby is away "on safari" (the term used here when anyone goes anywhere - be it to town for the day or on a month long trip to the Serengeti and beyond). So he is spending Valentine's night at a delightful sounding guest house called "Liquid Gold". (Yep, that's right - that really is the name of the guest house !)
He will be tucking in to a delicious Valentine's dinner of bacon, cheese and chutney rolls with "Chinese savoury crackers with chives" (what it says on the box !) and some coffee and biscuits for dessert - I always pack him plenty of food for his trips away as he refuses to eat at any local establishments due to the hygiene factor. (I am quite happy to eat Tanzanian "street food" but hubby prefers to play it safe).
So I will be making up for the bacon rolls, with a slap bang Valentine's meal for him once he returns.
My dinner tonight consisted of oatmeal porridge (yum !) because quite honestly, I can't be bothered to cook when hubby is away and the toddler had spaghetti bolognese (frozen meal I made a few weeks ago) and salad. So, seeing as I could hardly post a recipe for oatmeal porridge, and in keeping with the Valentine's theme - here is a recipe for "Sugar Biscuits" which I made last week -:
Sugar Biscuits
1/2 cup Margarine
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
2 tbsp Milk
1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
2 1/2 cups Flour
2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
Cream the marg and sugar. Add the egg, milk & vanilla essence and blend well. Add the sifted flour, baking powder & salt. Mix well. Roll out thinly (about 3mm thick) & cut in to desired shapes. Place on greased baking tray and bake at 190'C/375'F/Gas Mark 5 for about 10 minutes.
Makes about 60 biscuits (depending on how much raw dough is eaten by assistant toddler/s)
Warning - these are "dunk in your tea or risk breaking your teeth" biscuits as they are quite hard. But delicious (and well worth a chipped tooth or two)
