Posh cheese biscuits

 These cheese biscuits are very expensive to buy (about £10 a box in Norway) but dead easy to make. You can use whatever dried fruit nuts and spices that you have. A great way of using up the open packets that you have lurking in the cupboard.

Ingredients

Flour

Baking powder

Salt

Sugar 

Dried fruit

nuts

seeds

spices 

I haven't included measurements because it's not critical.

Method

Put some flour into a bowl. OK, it's about two cups but it really depends on how big your loaf tin is. You want to half fill the tin so will need enough flour to do that.

Add a teaspoon of baking powder and some salt and sugar. The amount of sugar depends on how healthy you want the biscuits to be. They taste better with a couple of tablespoons. Add the spices and mix with a whisk. Yes, a whisk. You want the powders to be well mixed and a spoon won't do it properly.

Now add the dried fruit (raisins, apricots, prunes, dates, cranberries. Oh, I guess you know what dried fruit is) chop up the big bits and mix so that all the fruit is covered with flour then add the nuts (don't chop them up though) and seeds. By volume you want about the same amount of fruit and seeds as flour.

Add enough milk to make a wet but not runny dough.

Put into a loaf tin and bake at 200 degrees C for 30 - 45 minutes.

Tip out of the tin and allow to cool.

Here's the secret to making the biscuits thin. Put the loaf in the freezer until frozen then take it out and cut into as thin slices as you can manage.

Arrange the slices on a baking tray and bake at 180 degrees C check them every 5 minutes and take them out when they start to go brown.