I had a craving for jam drops the other day and so started hunting through my cookbooks for a recipe. Crazily, I didn't have one and so I turned to old faithful - google - for the answer. But, lo! The internet was broken. Well, actually I imagine that the internet itself was buzzing along happily as always, but the thingy that makes the thingy work that makes the internet ping into my computer appeared to be broken. Tragic. Stuck at home on a rainy day dreaming of jam drops, without a recipe. I thought I would just give it a whirl and make it up as I went along but then I had a bright idea - call somebody! My recipe somebody is almost always my mother but she wasn't answering and so I called my aunt instead. It turned out that she too is jam drop recipe-less and so my uncle hopped online and found the following:
Delicious! The Man and his climbing friend Trad-boy came home just as the biscuits were out of the oven. They demolished a whole tray-full before the kettle even had time to boil....a sure sign of biscuit sucess!
Jam Drops
125g soft butter
100g caster sugar (I used raw)
vanilla
1 egg
190g SR Flour
plain flour to dust
jam (I used cherry preserve)
1) Pre-heat oven to 180C
2) Beat butter sugar and vanilla until creamy
3) Add egg and combine
4) Sift in flour and stir
5) Roll teaspoonsful (use extra flour to stop the balls sticking to your fingers)
6) Put on tray and 'dent' each one with a finger mark
7) Add jam to the dent
8) 15 minutes
Delicious! The Man and his climbing friend Trad-boy came home just as the biscuits were out of the oven. They demolished a whole tray-full before the kettle even had time to boil....a sure sign of biscuit sucess!
