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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Candida's Fabulous Biscuits

Today Margot and I made dessert biscuits with Candida, our friend who works at the WE-ACTx house we're staying in. She's fabulous and so this recipe is all thanks to her and her fabulousness. It makes a lot...

Ingredients:
8 eggs 8 tablespoons flour 2 limes (trust me on this one) 8 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder oil for frying

Grate both limes (rinds only--for zest) with the finest side of the cheese grater. Set aside.
Add all 8 eggs and 8 tablespoons of sugar into bowl and mix well.
Add 2 tablespoons of grated lime rinds to bowl and mix again.
Add 8 tablespoons flour to bowl and mix well.
Add 1 tablespoon baking powder, mix.
Add more flour if necessary to make the consistency of pancake batter (We ended up with 10 tablespoons of flour total in our batter). Mix it up again.
Add the rest of lime and mix it.
Fill a shallow pan halfway with oil and turn on low/medium heat.
Put some oil in a small bowl (not in batter).
Coat hands in oil (we did all the scooping by hand). Dip tablespoon in oil and use to drop batter into pan with oil once oil is heated. The batter is going to be fried so heat the oil appropriately and be careful.
Drop about 1/2 teaspoons of batter into oil and fill pan. Dip tablespoon in oil when batter starts getting stuck and hard to drop into pan. The batter should drop fairly quickly otherwise it (like my first few) ends up stringy, but tastes great anyway so I suppose it doesn't matter.
Use a strainer spoon to turn over each biscuit when the top of the biscuit bubbles (like pancakes). Each side should be lightly browned, then take out and put in strainer.
Make sure to use strainer spoon and put in a strainer to drain any excess oil before eating.
Tada! Eat and enjoy!

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