cheap family recipes
feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a month
Ingredients
- 150 g raisins
- 225 g flour self raising
- 125 g sugar
- 125 g lard
- 70 g oats Ready Brek type
- ½ tsp garam masala
Instructions
- Place all dry ingredients in a bowl, cut the lard into small cubes and add it in mixing with fingertips until you have a breadcrumb consistency.
- Then add enough water to make a dough which comes cleanly away from the sides of the bowl and which isn’t sticky to the touch. (approx 4 x 15ml tablespoons).
- Roll out onto a floured surface to 4mm thick, and use a biscuit cutter to form biscuits.
- After you have cut lots of shapes, squidge the leftovers together, re roll and cut out more until all dough is used up.
- Bake at gas mark 6 for 8 mins with this sized cookie cutter (We made 41 biscuits, so if you’ve made lots less, add a few mins cooking time!)
- Click here to start a 6 minute timer
- Make this sized batch twice in the month.
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