English biscuits
These biscuits are a French recipe given to me by my neighbour when we lived there. Not sure why they're called 'English' biscuits! My grandsons are coming today and they love these. My neighbour always uses half plain flour and half potato flour, but as I couldn't find any potato flour, I used all plain flour. Also the recipe uses some cooking chocolate as well as some with praline in it. I used good milk chocolate instead of the cooking chocolate. They seem to have a better selection of good cooking chocolate in France. The recipe makes about 30 biscuits 4 eggs, separated pinch of salt 100g caster sugar 1 lemon 75g potato flour 75g plain flour 100g cooking chocolate 100g chocolate with praline Preheat oven 200C/gas 6/400F Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Beat the egg yolks in a bowl with the salt and sugar till they whiten. Wash the lemon, grate its zest, then juice it. Add the juice and zest to the egg yolks. Beat the egg whites till firm and ...