Biscuits and walking boots

Problem

::A rainy windy Sunday::

::A bored 10 year old::

Solution

::Yummy baking cookbook::

::A raid into the baking cupboard::

I made these delish sunflower seed biscuits last weekend when we had our walking gang for the day. They were so quick and easy to make and even quicker to be eaten that I didn't even have time to grab my camera. So I promised myself and my gannets boys that I would make them again and blog the recipe down. However...... like most of my baking plans, Youngest hijacked offered to do the cooking so that

........ You can take the photos Mum.....

So, thank you to my photo/baking model, I now present to you.................

Sunflower Seed Biscuits

200gm (7 oz) self-raising flour
125gm (4 1/2 oz) butter or margarine
125gm (4 1/2 oz) light brown sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
75gm (2 1/2 oz) sunflower seeds
Pre heat the oven 180 deg C (350 deg F) gas mark 4

Put the flour, butter (margarine) and sugar in a bowl and mix with a fork until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Chuck in the egg and seeds, mix again and form into a ball.
Break pieces off and roll into the size of a large marble.
Place onto a prepared baking tray and use a fork to press down to flatten.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 12 - 15 mins.

Leave to cool (ie shut the kitchen door against marauding biscuits thieves) before eating. Apparently they can stay in an airtight container up to 5 days and be frozen for up to one month - hah fat chance!

Now for the brass tacks::

• The original recipe called for pumpkin seeds but I didn't have any so used the sunflower seeds instead
• The method advised that the dough be rolled into a sausage shape of about 20 cm then sliced. I did try that but found that as soon as the knife hit a seed, the biscuit flattened and needed re-shaping. After doing about 10 biscuits like this (rolling, cutting, reshaping and flattening out) I gave up and just rolled the large marble size and flattened with a fork - so-ooo much easier.
• Very easy to do, Youngest completely independently made them, my only input was to deal with the hot oven.
• The only drawback to this recipe? They  DO NOT last very long in this household!

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As usual. our weekend has just evaporated. A jam packed combination of clothes shopping (ugh), homework (urgh), going out to a 50th party and dancing our feet flat all night to a band (nice nice), dodging the rain (sigh) and then finally, late on Sunday afternoon -  a quick walk (at last!)

The track through the fields where swallows flew around out heads................

The view of our village.............I live down there

 

The wind blowing the cobwebs out of the boys................

...............The fields filled with nodding buttercups, red clover, plantain, vetch, 

yellow rattle, cow and field parsley..................

......................And the far away dreams in a young boy's head

So ends our weekend, are we ready for the coming week? Probably not, but hey ho - Monday is on it's way! Well, my dears, it has been lovely chatting with you, hope you all have Marvellous Mondays xxx