Biscuits III
Category	Biscuit recipes
Yield	18 biscuits
Time	20 minutes
Difficulty	Category:Easy recipes#Biscuits%20III

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This recipe is adapted from the public domain cookbook Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management.^[1]

Ingredients

• 1¼ cups (175 g/6.2 oz) all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup (55 g/1.9 oz) caster sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tablespoons milk

Procedure

1. Preheat the oven to 220 °C (428 °F). Grease a baking pan.
2. Beat the egg and milk together in a bowl.
3. Mix the other ingredients into the egg mixture to form a soft dough.
4. Roll out the dough to 5 mm (0.20 in) and cut out into very thin biscuits with a round cookie cutter.
5. Place the biscuits on the baking pan.
6. Bake for 6 minutes until golden.
7. Take the biscuits out of the oven and leave them to cool.

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