Challenge 5 : Tea time Snacks

There are some habits or routines that haven’t changed all my life! One such habit is drinking some form of milk at around 5 p.m. every evening! Initially milk, then Boost or Bournvita, and for almost 12 years now, coffee and very very rarely, tea! ️ This was almost always accompanied by some small snack! Rare treats included Samosa, puff, Varki or Chaat but almost always, it was milk biscuits! I love to dunk them in my milk and then later eat the soggy biscuits ☕

So today when I had to pick one dish for our tea time snack challenge, it had to be a biscuit! 🍪

I had a winner Salt Biscuit recipe and I thought I’ll just make that today! I’ve tried it several times in the past and they always come out great! The smell of butter biscuits being baked is probably one of those “bottle-worthy scents” and trust me, once you start baking these at home, you’ll never buy them again 🤩

From my Kitchen Today, for the Tea time snack round in the #PantryStaplesChallenge, “Bakery Style Salt Biscuit”

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Course: Snacks

Difficulty: 🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ Servings: 12 Biscuits

Note: Part of the pantry staples challenge. To know more about the challenge : https://samyukthaashok19.wixsite.com/frommykitchentoday/post/pantry-staples-challenge

Dish : Bakery Style Salt Biscuit

Ingredients:

Self rising flour - 1 cup*

Salt- 1/2 tsp Sugar - 2 tbsp Unsalted Butter - 1/4 cup

*can be substituted with 1 cup All purpose flour + 1/2 tsp Baking powder + 1/2 tsp Baking soda

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 325F

2. Mix the butter and sugar together until it’s silky and soft

3. Fold in the flour and salt (if you are using all purpose flour, add baking powder and baking soda at this stage)

4. Mix well till it’s crumbly- do not knead it

5. Bring the dough together and roll it using a rolling pin on a flat surface making sure it’ is 1/4 inch thick

6. Using a cookie cutter, cut the cookie dough and place the cut cookies on a baking tray

7. Pierce the cookies using a fork so it bakes evenly

8. Bake for 12 mins

9. Once the timer goes off, leave it in the oven until it cools down completely