Grandma Solange's biscuits

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 25 biscuits, you will need:

• 1 100 g butter
• 2 125 g caster sugar
• 3 250 g flour
• 4 2 eggs
• 5 whole almonds
• Total weight: 575 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
24 min.	20 min.	44 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C). Put 100 g butter and 125 g caster sugar into a food-mixer bowl. Mix on slow speed until evenly mixed.
2	Add 250 g flour and 2 eggs.
3	Beat until thooughly mixed.
4	Shape the mixture into into small heaps using 2 teaspoons, well spaced out on a baking sheet.
5	Place an almond on the top of each heap.
6	And bake for about 15 minutes.
7	Watch carefully towards the end of the cooking time: they are done when the edges are browned. Leave to cool before eating.

Remarks

These small biscuits are the equivalent of Proust's madeleine for me: I can't make them without finding myself back, in my thoughts, in that (distant, very distant) time when I was about ten years old.

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