Vintage baking with great Grandma Lily part two - Crunchy Nutty Biscuits

in #foodphotography6 years ago (edited)

So my tiny 86 year old Mom Lily is a Grandma and Great Grandma already, however not courtesy of me yet!!!
Psst...did my sons hear that?...sigh...back to Mom Lily who had a busy week baking last week, this time making the most perfect biscuit in my mind, a crunchy nutty biscuit packed with nourishing ingredients.
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Mom Lily doing her thing, still refuses to wear vintage clothes :)
I will provide the recipe at the end of this post.

Butter, eggs & sugar all go into the mixing bowl, mix until creamy.
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Add Peanut Butter, Baking Soda, Milk & Vanilla Esssence and blend till cremy.
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Dry ingredients are mixed separately, then added to creamed mixture.
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Mix till well blended.
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Form round balls and place well apart on a buttered baking pan, flatten biscuits with a fork.
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Biscuits are baked at 170 C in a fan oven (or 180 C in a regular oven) until golden brown.
Carefully remove from pan onto a wire rack to cool down.
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Delicious aromas drifting throughout the house, our Lily's Cottage guests just walked past ooh-ing and ahh-ing, will send a bottle down to them :)
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RECIPE
Cream together:
250 gram Butter, at room temperature
400g (500ml) Sugar
Add & mix: 2 Eggs
135g bottle (125ml)Peanut Butter
Dissolve 10ml Baking Soda in 20ml Milk
Add: 5ml Vanilla Essence
Add the above to creamed mixture
Mix: 250g (500ml) Cake Wheat Flour
150g (500ml) Dessicated Coconut
75g (500ml) Cornflakes
200g (500ml) Rolled Oats
Add to creamed mixture and mix well.
Form small balls, place well apart on buttered baking pan, flatten with a fork.
Bake at 170 C in fan oven or 180 C in regular oven for about 10 - 15 min or till golden brown.
Leave to cool on wire rack and store in airtight glass bottles.
Makes approx 9 dozen biscuits (depending on size of balls).

A fun addition, Great Grandma/ Grandma/ Mom Lily in another role with the Bronze Bream she caught on the Kwazulu Natal South Coast, South Africa at the age of 72 . Mom tells me this was the last fish she caught!
The menfolk took their angling quite seriously, studied bait, the phases of the moon, the seatides; very scientific in their approach, but Mom would just go and throw her rod casually and often come back with the best catch :)

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I woukd love sone more of those cookies Aunty Lilly , they are delicious. I think it's time for a visit @lizelle. well done

She is always cooking is beautiful, her recipe for cookies is very good

Hey @andrina, yes she loves baking, thanks for stopping by. Hope you try the recipe, it's very easy but delicious :)

Beautiful grandmother, they should be delicious they always know how to cook very well

They do hey! These are real easy but delicious, nice seeing you @yesslife :)

It's good to know about you, I love your recipes

It seems a very easy recipe besides delicious, I love making cookies just that we already know the situation of my country I am from Venezuela

Thanks @jennimorillo you're right it's very easy. Sorry I have not been following the news much, you're still having problems in Venezuela?

Yes, and each day it gets worse.

So sorry to hear that!

I'm sure they were delicious.

It's our new favourite @jusipassetti :)

Lol, I'd love to see ouma in some vintage clothes! As for this recipe and some others you've been providing us, thank you. These are truly timeless and now they won't become lost in time :)

Exactly what I'm trying to do with these & especially for you & the other grandchildren. Imagine Soren can one day read about great granny Lily's baking! Ouma wore a dress one day when you were a tiny tot & apparently looked at her in wonder & said 'Ouma you've got legs!' & she still has, very shapely ones at that :):)

Lol, I didn't know that. "Ouma, jy't bene." Bwahahaaha.

Dit moes vreeslik snaaks gelyk het vir n klein seuntjie, ouma dra omtrent nooit rokke nie:):)

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