Bahamian flour biscuits

CBC News | Posted: December 22, 2017 8:00 PM | Last Updated: December 22, 2017

Cordell Wells says this recipe is his grandmother's

Ingredients

• 7 cups flour
• 3 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 3 tsp nutmeg, allspice, and mace
• ½ a can of evaporated milk
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 ½ heaping tbsp of shortening
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350F
2. Mix all ingredients together until dough resembles a soft slightly wet dough.
3. Generously flour your surface and your dough and roll out to about 1/3 of an inch in thickness and cut with a circle cookie cutter of about 3 inches in diameter.
4. Bake on cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, about 6 per pan.
5. Bake until a golden brown colour peeks around the sides and biscuits are very firm.
6. Cool on a cooling rack.
7. Cookies should be very crunchy.
8. Serve with your favourite hot beverage for dipping