I mentioned my new cooker in my last post and was taken
aback to discover that in the US it’s not called a cooker. I don’t know what it
is called. I’m hoping that one of my blogger buddies will tell me. To clear up
any misunderstanding, this is it and you can even see my delicious Orange Biscuits
cooking in the oven.
It’s a Belling electric cooker with induction hobs and I
love it. The only down side was that we had to have new saucepans. The
induction works by magnet and so the saucepans have to be able to stick to a
magnet (there is a technical term but...) It was worth the extra investment. The
heat is almost instant... Hang on, I’m starting to sound like an advert so I’ll move swiftly on to the biscuits (cookies!).
These biscuits are so easy to make. All you need is:
5 oz self raising flour
2 oz castor sugar
4 oz butter
Grated zest of one orange
Put all the mixture into a bowl and rub together.
Mix until it forms a dough and then roll small pieces into balls and place them on an ungreased baking tin.
Press down
with a fork and bake at 180C/Gas 4 for about 15 minutes. Sprinkle with caster sugar, let them cool and eat them... if you can wait that long. The smell of orange oil is mouth watering!
I can’t promise they’ll do much for your diet
or your cholesterol but they never hang around for very long in our house.
That’s it. I’m off to put the kettle on so I can have a cup of tea
and an Orange Biscuit... but I’m still curious to know what people in the US cook their dinners on.
