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  COOKIES  





"Cookies are popular with kids. Everyone likes cookies as they are very nutritious.They can be made at home and can be preserved."









NAN KHATAI




INGREDIENTS:


  • 2 Cup White Flour ("Maida")

  • 1 Cup Castor Sugar

  • ¾ Butter Oil (Ghee)

  • 1 Pinch Salt

  • 1 Egg Yolk

  • 1 tsp Baking Powder


    METHOD:


    1. Firstly sieve flour with baking powder.

    2. Blend the sugar properly so that no big peices of sugar remain.

    3. Then in the sieved flour,add castor sugar, Ghee and salt and mix well with hands.

    4. Grease baking tray with oil and dust with flour.

    5. Make round Nan Khatai with hands and put on the tray.

    6. With help of brush, put egg yolk on top and if required crushed almonds can be sprinkled.

    7. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.

    8. When their bottom gets light brown, take them out and let them cool.

    9. They can be preserved in an air-tight jar.



    ZEERA BISCUITS




    INGREDIENTS:


  • 2 Cups White Flour ("Maida")

  • 1 Egg

  • ½ Cup Butter Oil (Ghee)

  • 1 tsp Cumin Seeds ("Zeera")

  • 4 tbsp Castor Sugar

  • 1 tsp Baking powder

  • 1 tsp Salt


    METHOD:


    1. Firstly toast the zeera in moderate oven then crush it.

    2. Sieve flour and baking powder.

    3. Blend sugar so that no big peices of sugar remain.

    4. Then add ghee,zeera,egg,sugar and salt and mix well to make a dough.

    5. If the dough is hard,mix 2tbsp of cold water in the mixture.

    6. Make the dough ¼" thick.

    7. Cut the biscuits with the biscuit cutter.

    8. Grease the tray with oil and dust with flour.

    9. Place the biscuits on the tray and bake for 15 minutes or until their base is brown at mark 4 or 180°C.

    10. These biscuits can be preserved in an air-tight jar.




    CHEESE BISCUITS

    INGREDIENTS:


  • 4 ozs Butter

  • 3 ozs Grated Cheese

  • 4 ozs White Flour

  • ¼ tsp Salt

  • ½ tsp Mustard

  • ¼ tsp Chilli Powder

  • 1 tsp Baking Powder

  • ½ tbsp Poppy Seeds

  • ½ tbsp Caraway


    METHOD:


    1. Firstly mix butter and cheese until creamy.

    2. Sieve flour and baking powder.

    3. Add in it salt,mustard and chilly powder.

    4. Add it to butter mixture.

    5. Beat it until well blended.

    6. Grease the tray with oil and dust with flour.

    7. Flour hands and roll small balls.

    8. Sprinkle the seeds on top.

    9. Place in the baking tray and bake for 15 to 20 minutes at mark 4.



    PIN WHEEL BISCUITS




    INGREDIENTS:


  • 2 Cups Flour

  • ½ Cup Butter Oil (Ghee)

  • 1 Egg

  • 1 Cup Castor Sugar

  • 1 tsp Baking Powder

  • 2 tsp Cocoa Powder


    METHOD:


    1. Firstly sieve maida with baking powder.

    2. Blend sugar so that no big peices of sugar remain.

    3. Then add ghee,egg and sugar and make a dough.

    4. If a dough is not formed,add a little water.

    5. Divide the mixture in two parts.

    6. In one part add cocoa powder and mix well with hands and let other remain white.

    7. Take a big butter paper and first roll on it the white dough.

    8. Then on it roll the cocoa dough.

    9. Now with the help of the butter paper,roll it to form a stick.

    10. Put it in the freezer so that it becomes hard.

    11. Grease the tray with oil and dust with flour.

    12. Now cut the biscuits and put them in the tray.

    13. Pre-heat oven at mark 4 or 180°C and bake it for 15 to 20 minutes.

    14. When they get brown from the bottom,take them out and let them cool.

    15. Serve any time.



    LEMON COCONUT BISCUITS

    INGREDIENTS:


  • 2 Cup White Flour ("Maida")

  • 150 gms Butter

  • 1 tbsp Coconut

  • 1 tsp Lemon Rinds

  • ½tsp Lemon Essence

  • ½ tsp Baking Powder

  • ½ Cup Castor Sugar


    METHOD:


    1. Firstly sieve flour with baking powder.

    2. Blend sugar so that no big peices of sugar remain.

    3. Beat butter with essence.

    4. Add in the sugar and again mix well.

    5. In that add the egg.

    6. Now put the rinds, coconut and flour mixture and mix well.

    7. Grease with oil and dust with flour.

    8. Put the mixture for ½ an hour in the fridge.

    9. Then put the mixture in icing machine and pipe out small biscuits on the tray.

    10. Let it bake for 15 minutes or until their base gets brown.

    11. Bake them at 180°C or mark 4.

    12. Their dough is not thick,therefore it is piped out through icing machine.



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