Yummy sesame thins

Shirley · Post: # 50738Post **Shirley** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:50 am

I made these yesterday! Absolutely delicious and very moreish...

Recipe from the Cranks Recipe Book.

These are amazing - as it says in the book "baked sesame seeds give these crisp, golden biscuits a unique flavour"

They are also incredibly easy to make.

100g (4oz) wholemeal flour
100g (4oz) butter or margarine
50g (2oz) sesame seeds
50g (2oz) pale raw brown sugar

Put the flour in a basin, rub in the butter. Add the sesame seeds and sugar and work the mixture together. Press the mixture into an 11 X 7" (27 X 18cm) shallow cake tin. Bake in the oven at 180C (mark 4) for about 20 minutes, until golden. Mark into slices while warm but leave to cool in the tin.

Makes 12 biscuits.

red · Post: # 50743Post **red** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:14 am

ooo sounds good - have to give that a go. how thin do you spread the mixture?

Shirley · Post: # 50744Post **Shirley** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:49 am

If you use a tin of the suggested size and just press it down evenly into the tin.

I didn't have the size of tin that was suggested so improvised with a 9 x 9 " - I guess that made it just slightly thinner than it would have been in the 11 x 7" but it worked ;)

the.fee.fairy · Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:55 pm

sounds tasty, do they come out like those sesame things you can buy?

glenniedragon · Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:57 pm

you can also mix sesame seeds with honey (enough to make a real sesame goo mix, no clear honey visible) and plonk them in the oven and cut up into squares - this is a roman 'sweet' recipe so temp and time is a bit vague!

kind thougths
Deb

Big fan of sesame snaps- high level of calcium for things so small

Shirley · Post: # 50760Post **Shirley** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:54 pm

the.fee.fairy wrote:sounds tasty, do they come out like those sesame things you can buy?

I think Glenniedragon's recipe is more likely to come out like that... mine come out like thin biscuits with lots of sesame taste. Mmmmmm got to go and make more as my 12 year old has just snaffled the last of them!!

Will try the sesame and honey at the same time GD!

the.fee.fairy · Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:46 am

they both sound delicious!!

Where'd you get sesame seeds from? I don't think i've looked carefully enough to find any.

glenniedragon · Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:52 pm

Our local wholefood shop sells them by the kilo!, that keeps us going for a fair while I can tell you

kind thoughts
Deb

hedgewitch · Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:34 pm

Both of those recipes sound absolutely yummy. I will definately be giving them a try.