Best Lancashire Recipes | Sofrat hadhramia

  Lancashire biscuits are classified as a variety of sweets, specifically biscuits. Its main ingredients include butter, eggs, starch, flour, sugar, vanilla and baking powder, which are ingredients in the preparation of many Eastern and Western sweets. Lancashire biscuits are often characterized by ease and speed of preparation. . To prepare Lancashire biscuits at home, we present to you in this article how to prepare this dish of biscuits.

🔹A cup and a quarter of warm butter.

🔹Half a cup of powdered sugar.

🔹One egg.

🔹Two cups of white flour.

🔹Half a cup of starch.

🔹A quarter spoon of vanilla.

🔹Also a quarter spoon of baking powder.

🔹A piece of finely grated coconut.

🔹Apricot jam or strawberry jam can be used for decoration, depending on personal preference.

💠Preparation:

🔹Beat the butter after adding powdered sugar in a bowl, manually or automatically using a mixer, until we obtain a mixture of cream with a smooth texture.

🔹During the whipping process, add one egg with vanilla, while continuing the whipping process.

🔹Add the white flour with the starch and baking powder, mixing the mixture well, and then add this mixture to the previous butter mixture gradually and carefully, while continuing to stir and mix it until the final dough holds together and is homogeneous.

🔹After completing the previous process, store the dough in the refrigerator for a period of time of approximately half an hour to ensure its complete consistency.

🔹Then cut the dough into very small balls, each of which is the size of a hazelnut, then arrange the biscuit pieces in a non-tight manner on the baking tray, leaving a space of four or five centimeters between each piece.

🔹In the meantime, heat the gas oven to one hundred and seventy degrees Celsius for a period ranging from fifteen to twenty minutes.

 🔹Place the previous pieces of biscuit dough in the oven to be baked and wait until the color of the bottom side of the biscuit turns golden, and at the same time we will notice that the surface of the biscuit will remain white.

 🔹After completing the baking process, put the biscuits aside until they cool on their own.

 🔹Then move on to decorating, by placing an amount of jam on the base of each piece, then sticking it to another piece of biscuit, and then sprinkling an amount of ground coconut on the edges of all the pieces. After that, the Lancashire biscuit dish is ready to serve.

💠Ingredients: 

 🔹Four eggs.

 🔹Two cups of starch.

 🔹Two cups of white flour.

 🔹A cup of vegetable ghee.

 🔹A cup of white powdered sugar.

 🔹A teaspoon of baking powder.

 🔹A teaspoon of vanilla.

 🔹A pinch of table salt.

 💎Filling ingredients:

 🔹Any type of jam, such as: apricot jam, strawberry jam, fig jam, or orange jam, depending on taste.

 💠Preparation: 

 🔹Prepare a bowl, pour the sugar and vegetable ghee into it, mix them well, then add the vanilla and eggs, and stir the ingredients well until you obtain a homogeneous mixture.

 🔹After that, add the starch, flour, a pinch of salt, and baking powder to the sugar and ghee mixture, and knead the mixture well until you obtain a cohesive dough.

 🔹Note: If the dough is too soft, add a little flour to it and knead it.

 🔹Start shaping the dough, depending on the desired shape.

 🔹Bring a tray and arrange the pieces of biscuits in order.

 🔹Turn the oven on at a normal temperature, place the tray in it, and leave the biscuits in the oven until it turn yellow.

 🔹Take the tray out of the oven, and start filling the dessert with jam. After that, leave the dessert aside to cool.

 🔹Prepare a serving plate, arrange the Lancashire pieces in it, and serve it cold with a cup of coffee.

 💠Ingredients: 

 🔹Two eggs.

 🔹Two and a half cups of starch.

 🔹A cup and a quarter cup of powdered sugar.

 🔹Two and a half cups of flour.

 🔹Three hundred grams of melted butter.

 🔹A tablespoon of baking powder.

 🔹A pinch of vanilla.

 🔹Apricot jam for filling.

 🔹Frymsal for decoration.

 💠 Preparation:

 🔹Get the electric mixer, put vanilla, sugar, and butter in it, and mix them together until you get a white mixture, then add the eggs and whisk the ingredients together.

🔹Prepare a bowl, pour the mixed mixture into it, and begin adding the starch gradually, stirring the mixture with a wooden spoon, then begin adding the flour gradually with continuous stirring, until you obtain a cohesive, homogeneous, and smooth dough that does not stick to the hand.

 🔹Wrap the dough in a nylon bag, and place it in the refrigerator for a full hour to rest.

 🔹Shape the dough into small balls.

 🔹Prepare a tray, cover it with parchment paper, then arrange the pieces of sweet in it.

 🔹Turn on the oven at a medium temperature, and place the tray in it for between ten and fifteen minutes, while keeping the color of the Lancashire pieces white.

 🔹Take the tray out of the oven and leave it aside to cool.

 🔹Prepare apricot jam, spread the pieces of sweet in it, put both pieces together, then decorate them with vermicelli.

 🔹Arrange the Lancashire sweet pieces on a serving plate, and serve it with a large cup of Nescafe or cappuccino.

 💠Ingredients: 

 🔹Four cups of pre-sifted white all-purpose flour.

 🔹Four cups of corn flour (starch).

 🔹Two teaspoons of baking powder.

 🔹Two cups of soft butter at room temperature, preferably using unsalted butter.

 🔹Two and a half cups of finely ground white sugar.

 🔹Four medium-sized eggs, at room temperature.

 🔹Two teaspoons of vanilla extract.

 💎Filling and decorating ingredients:

 🔹An amount of chocolate melted in a water bath, or in the microwave.

 🔹A quantity of ground nuts, such as walnuts, pistachios, or almonds.

 🔹An amount of jam, whether apricot or strawberry.

 💠Preparation: 

 🔹Preheat the oven before starting the dough preparation process, and this is the basic rule in all types of baked pastries or sweets.

 🔹Mix the sifted white flour with the amount of starch and sifted baking powder also well.

 🔹Mix the soft butter with the sugar using an electric mixer for at least three minutes, to ensure that the two ingredients blend with each other, and obtain a cream-like mixture.

 🔹Add the eggs to the butter mixture gradually, while continuing the whisking process. Be careful to add the next egg after the previous egg is completely incorporated into the mixture.

 🔹Add the flour mixture to the eggs and butter, gradually, making sure to change the hook mixer to the kneading paddle.

 🔹Continue mixing until you obtain a soft, cohesive dough with a smooth texture.

 🔹It is worth noting that this dough does not contain yeast, so it does not need time to ferment, and therefore it can be prepared directly.

 🔹Shape the dough into small circular pieces, reaching the size of a walnut.

🔹Arrange the dough pieces in a tray on parchment paper, making sure to space each piece more than 1 cm apart, so that the dough pieces do not stick to each other.

 🔹Bake small biscuits in the oven at 170 degrees Celsius, until they are browned and cooked.

 🔹Leave the biscuits aside until they cool completely before starting the filling and decorating process.

 🔹Spread a piece of biscuit on a flat surface with a little jam, and cover it with another piece of biscuit.

 🔹Decorate the pieces from the sides with nuts.

 🔹Some other pieces are dipped in chocolate, decorated with nuts, left on a wire rack until the chocolate dries and solidifies, and served.