Rather remiss

Yet again, it appears to be over a month since i've posted anything... where does the time go!? New Years resolution... post more regularly... Anyway, thought it time to live up to my promise and post another one of mum's biscuit recipes.

Easter biscuits were a firm favourite when i was a kid, and given the presence of creme eggs everywhere already, I figured it was almost seasonal already! This is, again, a very simple recipe. The only amendment i've made is that the margarine must be baking marg... i made the schoolboy error of using clover for my last batch and had to dump in a load of extra flour as the dough was stupidly wet when i tried to work it. Anyway, aside from that...:

Recipe (again in imperial...) 
3oz baking margarine
4oz caster sugar
6oz self-raising flour
1 egg yolk
2.5oz dried fruit - raisins and sultanas, but also cranberries work well
1 tbsp milk
1 tsp mixed spices


Method
Cream the marge and sugar together until smooth, then beat in the egg yolk. Add the flour, and mix, then the dried fruit, and spice.

Lastly add the milk - not too much, just enough to make a pliable dough. Ideally, the dryer the better as the biscuits will keep for longer too.

 Roll the dough out to about 1/4" and cut into 2" rounds. Bake for about 20 mins at 160 degrees. Again, leave plenty of room on the tray between each biscuit, and don't move them off the tray for five mins after they've come out of the oven, as they'll break up.

Try not to eat too many...