In my kitchen:

Are homemade Granita biscuits – well, as close as I am going to get, anyway.  I appreciate that my recipe has butter and egg in it and the commercial ones would have neither, so they are certainly no replica, but I do not intend to start using palm oil in an endeavour to recreate commercial biscuits.  These biscuits look like Granitas and taste like Granitas but are harder than the real thing.

Postscript:   This is my recipe for Granitas: 112g butter, ½ cup sugar, ¼ cup golden syrup, 1 egg, 1½ cups Atta flour (or sifted whole meal flour) 1¼ SR flour, pinch of salt, ½ cup crushed wheat flakes (eg Weeties) milk to form dough. If you skip the egg, replace the butter with palm oil (or another vegetable oil and replace the milk with water, I am sure you would be very close.  Continue reading →