My mum Monica was a great cook and baker, but I don’t remember her cooking biscuits as such. She made soft crumbly Viennese whirls, chewy yummy macaroons, cookies – which are more properly melting moments – oaty and melty and nice even when a couple of days old… But I don’t remember her making biscuits.
I recently had a pleasing triumph with Easter biscuits… and for once I am not being modest, I am boasting that they were really good, and correctly flavoured with cassia oil. So, although I am watching my weight, I have been looking at biscuit recipes, to make and then share – with my reading group friends, or with the people at the English class I volunteer to teach at. I came across a blog with ten top cookies – they look like biscuits to me, and each one was different and delicious looking. The ones I particularly liked were the curried coconut ginger cookies which sound very different… you can see a photo here:
and you can have a look for yourself at the ten contestants in the Belle Grove Plantation cooking competition here:
http://virginiaplantation.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/and-the-top-ten-are/
- Auntie Jen’s Friday Cookies (vanilla, chocolate chips, cranberries, coconut flakes)
- Brown Rice Chocolate Chip Cookie
- Cranberry Orange Walnut Shortbread Cookies
- Cranberry-Orange Macadamia Butter Cookies
- Curried Coconut Ginger Cookies
- Dolley’s Delights (peppermint and white chocolate)
- Lavender Sugar Cookies
- Madison’s Apple Pie Cookies
- Modern Molasses Cookies
- Orange Cookies
Which would be your favourite? If you want the recipes, follow the links!
Lois Elsden 
I love cookies.
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