Lemon and Condensed Milk Biscuits (Botswana)
"This recipe was featured on week 34 of my food blog, "Travel by Stove." I am attempting to cook on meal from every nation on Earth, and Botswana is my 34th stop. Unless otherwise noted, my Travel by Stove recipes are taken from authentic or traditional sources, and this recipe has been posted without any alternations or additions to the ingredients. This recipe originally appeared in "Mma Ramotswe's Cookbook." When I made these I used too little flour, so mine were more like cookies (as pictured in my photo). Yours will be thicker and more biscuit-like."
photo by GiddyUpGo
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
24 biscuits
ingredients
- 650.62 ml all-purpose flour
- 118.29 ml caster sugar
- 9.85 ml baking powder
- 2.46 ml grated lemon rind
- 7 fluid ounce condensed milk
- 0.25 ml salt
- 226.79 g unsalted butter
- 2.46 ml lemon juice
- powdered sugar, for dusting
directions
- Cream together the butter and sugar, then add the condensed milk and keep blending until well mixed.
- Add the lemon juice and grated zest, then sift together the dry ingredients and add that too. Keep blending until the ingredients are well-incorporated.
- Take teaspoons of dough and roll them into balls, then place them on a greased baking sheet and flatten gently with a fork.
- Bake at about 335 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes, or until starting to brown underneath. Let cool, then dust with powdered sugar.
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Reviews
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These are delicate and buttery with a nice lemony flavor. We made them for my son's schoolc project on Botswana. I will make them again. -
Dough was a bit runny and I added 1 cup more flour. Overrally way too too sweet
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I am a mother of two with another one on the way! I am married to an Englishman and we own a small business in our local area. We live in a very small town called Rough and Ready (yes there really is a place called Rough and Ready!) I am a part-time writer and full time mom. My kids were born 15 months apart and keep me so busy I barely have enough time to cook and no time at all for my other passion, horseback riding. I once had four horses but am down to two; my Arab mare Argo and old Denver. Both of them spend the vast majority of their time standing around in my back yard eating hay. I get to feed them and look at them, but until my kids are all in school (and I stop having more kids) that's about it.
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