42.Rolled Biscuits
Chandrabhabhi's recipe When I was growing up, the only biscuits that most Gujarati families in Kenya made were the rolled biscuits. Its only when numerous recipe books started coming out into the market that I tried my hands at other types of biscuits or cookies. I remember, my mum would make these biscuits on a Saturday so that I could help her to bake them. Perhaps thats where my passion for baking began. Later when my brother Sailubhai got married, Chandra bhabhi had to make the dough for the biscuits while my kaki and I would bake them. I remember bhabhi would comfortably sit on the floor, put the butter and sugar in a large basin and cream it till it was absolutely white and fluffy. There were no fancy machines back then. Her hand was the machine. A huge family meant a lot of biscuits. I had not made these rolled biscuits for a very long time as I prefer where you just roll the dough between the palm and bake. These biscuits though very yummy, are time consuming. I decided to ...