Andy Hamilton

Andy Hamilton

Why keep buying crackers when you can make them at home? Not only that these are well nice and pretty easy to make. They can keep for a while if you put them in a sealed container and away from sunlight.

Ingredients

100g Butter
150g plain flour
45ml Milk
1 teaspoon baking powder
A third of a teaspoon of salt.

Method

Sift the flour and mix in the salt and baking powder. Using a butter knife mix in the butter, you can use a normal knife but it is a bit harder.

Add the milk and mix until you have a dough.

On a floured surface roll out the dough until it is pretty thin but not thin enough to crack. Roughly to about 0.5cm.

Cut out the crackers with a cutter or a half pint glass.

Bake in the oven 180c for fan assisted ovens, 200c for normal and 400f or gas mark 6 for about 30 mins. I say about as this depends on how thin you have cut them, check every now and then. They will be golden when done.

Serve with a bottle of white lightning and a packet of lambert and butlers or alternatively some cheese and wine.