100g brown sugar
50mls strained dark honey
100g shortening
50mls buttermilk
1/2 tspn soda dissolved in 10mls of hot water
280g white flour
1 tspn baking soda
1/3 tspn salt
125g quick-cooking cereal oats
1 egg
75g finely chopped nuts ( walnut, hazelnut, almonds)
75g seedless raisins
1 tspn vanilla essence
Directions:
Mix the ingredients in the order given, having sifted the flour with the baking powder. The batter should be about the same consistency as biscuit dough. Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet about the size of a walnut. Per-heat oven to 160c. Bake at 160c fan assisted/ 180c conventional oven for 15 min. until golden brown. Once removed from the oven dust lightly with icing sugar. This will make approx. 25 biscuits.