Lazy Digestive Biscuits

I had a craving for cookies but was also feeling lazy so I made the dough, rolled it into a rectangle and used a bench scraper to cut it into rectangles. Recipe from Moorlands Eater’s Homemade Digestive Biscuits. Minor substitution of light buckwheat flour for the wholemeal flour and I used oats ground in the food processor. I did weigh out the amounts.

Ingredients

• 100 g large flake rolled oats ground reasonably fine in a food processor
• 50 g light buckwheat flour
• 50 g while flour
• 50 g white sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 75 g butter
• 1 egg beaten

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 F.
2. Line a 9×12 baking pan with parchment paper.
3. Mixing all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
4. Grate the butter into the bowl and rub it into the dry ingredients until you have what looks like breadcrumbs.
5. Add the beaten egg and mix (use your hands) to make a soft dough.
6. Roll dough out onto parchment paper into a rectangle (sprinkle the top with extra ground oat flour) – about .5 cm thick.
7. Put the dough in the baking pan and straight edges if necessary.
8. Use a bench scraper to cut the dough into rectangles and poke the cookies with a skewer to make holes
9. Bake for 10 minutes, turn the pan, bake for another 10 minutes and check. If they are not nicely browned give them another 2 minutes, turn and 2 minutes.
10. Remove from oven, recut the biscuits while they are warm and leave to cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
11. Cool completely on a wire rack and pop in an airtight container.

Makes about 1 and half dozen.