Victorian Garden Tea Party!

 

Great Grandmother: (Sarah-Jane's)

Jessie Kerr

Melting Moments

Another of our family's traditional recipes. A light, tasty, biscuit - ideal for a tea party!

Ingredients;

5 oz lard

3 oz butter (or marg, if that's what you use)

6 oz caster sugar

10 oz self raising flour

1 egg

2 teasp vanilla

Scotts Porage Oats.

Method;

Cream fats & sugar and beat in the egg. Work in the flour and vanilla essence. When you have a thick paste, spoon out a small portion the size of a walnut or more, wet your palms and roll into balls. Toss in the porage oats and place on a greased tray/mat/liner. http://www.siliconemoulds.com/PBSCProduct.asp?ItmID=9601635  Press each biscuit ball out very slightly.

Oven: moderate

Time: about 20 - 25 mins (depends on size of ball). 

          (Be careful as they burn easily. They should still be very pale when you remove them from the oven). 

Cool on a rack

Serve: With Great Grandma Jessie's tea-set, on her own hand-made, drawn-thread, crisp, white traycloth.

Complete the Tea Party with some little assorted finger-sandwiches and scones with jam and clotted cream.            

Have a lovely Tea Party!

Hely x
Friday 20th April 2012
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