Biscuits are made of childhood memories. Hours in the kitchen spent in the kitchen. Watching and waiting in anticipation.
Small or large, soft or crunchy. Iced, or covered with chocolate. Sandwiched together or packed full of fruity bits and nuts. Made with flour, made with oats. Sweetened with sugar, honey, spiced, plain. Dunked or spread with butter, the variety is almost infinite. There are savoury biscuits (crackers for cheese), but when we think of biscuits most of us think of the sweet treats that we associate with a quick moment of pleasure.
Add a rolling backdrop of the Irish countryside, stalls at a Farmers Market and you have the perfect setting as well as an excuse to splash out on some of the tastiest homemade biscuits ever.
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