Doffie Biscuits

January 3, 2016

Cindy's Family Favourites picnic theme had me scratching my caput - our household unit of measurement meals were from a straightforward meat 'n' veg range, together with zilch amidst the chops together with sausages of my memories jumped out at me for the occasion. Instead, I idea dorsum to schoolhouse lunchboxes together with flora myself strangely nostalgic for this relatively elementary apricot slice. Mum dug upward the recipe for me over Christmas - they're called Doffie Biscuits together with they're basically sugar, flour together with dried fruit. 

Veganising them entirely required me substitutes for ii eggs together with a distich of tablespoons of butter - Nuttelex did the flim-flam for the butter, spell a combination of Orgran No Egg together with apple tree sauce provided plenty wet together with binding ability to supervene upon the eggs. The results aren't going to modify your life but they're skillful - heavy on the apricot together with prissy together with chewy. And if you're me they're going to carry you lot conduct dorsum to your awkward teenage years.

Doffie biscuits

(based on a recipe from a cookbook compiled for the School of the Air to a greater extent than or less fourth dimension dorsum inwards the 1980s)

2 cups wholemeal self-raising flour

1.5 cups caster sugar

600g dried apricots, sliced upward (the master copy recipe calls for 1.5kg of dried fruit, but whoever compiled the cookbook suggested that 500g was enough)

4 heaped tablespoons shredded coconut

2 tablespoons melted Nuttelex

2 teaspoons Orgran No-Egg, mixed amongst iv tablespoons water

1/2 loving cup of apple tree puree

Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.

Mix the flour, sugar, apricots together with kokosnoot inwards a large bowl.

Stir inwards the Nuttelex, egg replacer together with apple tree puree.

Spread the mix evenly inwards a large apartment tray together with bake for 30-40 minutes, until the piece is cooked through. It volition look a chip soft when it's hot, but volition theater upward every bit it cools then you lot tin attain the axe piece it up.

Original recipe