Rich Tea Biscuits!

I like a good rich tea biscuit and I thought I would try to make my own. Also it gave me a chance to test out recipes for Christmas biscuits!


Ingredients

80g Caster Sugar
180g Butter
240g Plain Flour
1 tbsp Baking Powder
1 tbsp Milk
0.5 tsp Vanilla Extract

Steps

Step 1

Preheat oven to 190 degrees celsius (170 fan oven).

Step 2

Mix caster sugar, flour, baking powder and butter together and rub together until it resembles breadcrumbs.

Step 3

Add the vanilla extract and the milk. Personally I didn't add the milk as I felt it would have made the dough too wet.

Step 4

Roll out the dough (make sure to use plenty of flour) and use a circular cutter to cut out the biscuits.

Step 5

Bake for 9 minutes, until golden brown.

Step 6

Allow to cool and then enjoy!


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*Original recipe can be found here.

73 Questions!

1. Were you named after anyone?

No, but I really wish I had have been.

2. When's the last time you cried?

Last week when I was ill.

3. Do you like your handwriting?

I don't know really. I don't hate it, but there are definitely people with better writing than me!

4. What is your favourite lunch?

I like a good toastie especially at this time of year.

5. Instagram or Twitter?

Instagram

6. If you were another person, would you be friends with you?

Yes.

7. Do you bake?

Yes, although I definitely don't make enough time for it at the moment.

8. Do you like flying?

I don't mind it.

9. Would you bungee jump?

No!

10. What is your favourite cereal?

I kind of feel like it's really boring, but Weetabix.

11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?

Yes!

12. Do you think you're strong?

No.

13. What is your favourite ice cream?

Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough.

14. What is the first thing you notice about people?

Their smile!

15. Red or Pink?

If you're talking about a colour in its own right then red. If you're talking about lipstick then pink.

16. What is the least favourite thing about yourself?

I hate that I overthink everything!

17. Who do you miss most?

If I was away at uni properly then I would probably say my family. However, with commuting I get the best of both worlds, so I don't really miss anyone.

18. What was the last book you red because everyone was reading it?

The Fault in Our Stars.

19. What film made you cry the most?

I don't really cry at films.

20. What was the last thing you ate?

A rich tea biscuit.

21. What are you listening to right now?

The Fault in Our Stars soundtrack thanks to question 18!

22. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?

Probably dark blue considering that I wear that colour about 70% of the time.

23. Favourite smell?

Probably chocolate. I love getting off the train and being able to smell chocolate from the Nestle factory in York as I walk to uni!

24. Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?

My dad.

25. Mountain hideaway or beach house?

Beach, of course!

26. Favourite sport to watch?

Probably swimming.

27. Hair colour?

Blonde.

28. Eye colour?

Blue.

29. Puppies or Kittens?

Puppies!

30. Favourite food?

Pizza!

31. Scary film or happy endings?

Happy endings!

32. Last film you watched?

Love Rosie, for about the millionth time!

33. What book are you reading now?

Victoria by Daisy Goodwin.

34. Summer or Winter?

Summer.

35. Hugs or Kisses?

Hugs.

36. Favourite dessert?

Chocolate brownie.

37. Favourite room in your house?

My bedroom.

38. How long have you been on Facebook?

Nearly 4 years.

39. What is your favourite country to visit?

Probably America.

40. What was the last country you visited?

America, about 3 years ago.

41. Do you have a sibling?

I have an older sister.

42. Favourite sound?

Sound of the sea!

43. Rolling Stones or The Beatles?

Beatles.

44. Do you have a special talent?

Baking and singing.

46. Where were you born?

Yorkshire.

47. Where are you living now?

Yorkshire.

48. Favourite Hitchcock movie?

Vertigo, it always reminds me of first year of uni!

49. What book have you read again and again?

The Gallagher Girl series by Ally Carter.

50. Favourite TV series that's on now.

The Crown on Netflix.

51. Dark chocolate or milk chocolate?

Milk.

52. What's your favourite drink?

Pepsi.

53. Who is your girl crush?

I honestly have no idea!

54. What was the first film you saw at the cinema?

The Incredibles.

55. Heels or flats?

Flats, I hate heels!

56. Favourite bed time story?

The ones my mum used to make up when I was little!

57. Bath or shower?

Shower.

58. What's the hardest thing about being a mum?

IDK!

59. Favourite band?

I can't think of any I really like!

60. Favourite solo artist?

James Bay.

61. To be or not to be?

To be.

62. What would be the title of your autobiography?

Probably something about my life being incredibly dull!

63. Best gift you've ever received?

Probably my laptop.

64. Best gift you've ever given?

I remember saving up my pocket money and buying my mum a hairdryer when I was about 8!

65. Favourite fruit?

Banana.

66. What was your first pet?

My cocker spaniel Poppy.

67. Favourite board game?

Cluedo.

68. How do you have your coffee?

I don't drink coffee.

69. Best invention?

Probably self driving cars.

70. Diamonds or pearls?

Neither?

71. Blow Dry or Air Dry?

Air dry.

72. Cheap or expensive shampoo?

Neither expensive or cheap.

73. How Difficult was it to answer these questions?

A bit difficult.

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Visit to the Children's Archive!

This morning as part of a module I'm studying about children's literature, we went across to my uni library's children archive. We spent about two hours looking through a lot of Victorian and Edwardian children's books.  To be honest I think we spent a good amount of that laughing at how truly sexist some of them were.

I definitely want to go back there as I actually only really saw a small portion of it. The portion I was in mostly had a lot of fairytales. It was really interesting to read some of the fairytales I grew up with, as well as discovering some that I had not heard of before.

It was also interesting to read some of the tales from the Brothers Grimm. This was something I had partially studied in relation to Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber during second year of A-level. It was interesting to see how different they were to the fairytales that everyone thinks of. They are so dark!

It was also interesting to see the inscriptions at the start of different books. It was interesting to see that I lot of them had been given as prizes for good behaviour at school. One of them even had a crushed flower in.

All in all it was really interesting to go along and see a resource that I didn't know about before. It also helped to confirm to me that children's literature is definitely something that I want to talk about for my dissertation. The Children's Archive is also something that I definitely want to go back to in the future.

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