Rocks
Traditional dish with flour, baking powder, granulated sugar.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
Ingredients
- 4 cups flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ¼ pound currants
- ¼ tsp mace
- to taste zest of half a lemon
- 3 eggs, well beaten
- to taste candied cherries
Steps
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder.
- Rub in the butter.
- Add the sugar, currants, mace, and lemon zest.
- Stir in the eggs.
- Form into rough balls about 1 inch in diameter.
- If the balls are not holding together well, sprinkle with water.
- Garnish with ⅛ of a candied cherry.
- Bake for 9 minutes at 350°F.
- Cool.
Adapted from “Rocks”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.