Biscuits are popular snack foods worldwide made from refined wheat flour. Non wheat flours like sorghum and pearl millet flours have been used to replace part of wheat flour in preparation of acceptable biscuits and cookies, mainly as health foods, to increase the fibre, minerals and vitamin content
Ingredients
Refined wheat flour
70 g
Cumbu flour
30 g
Shortening
50 g
Powdered sugar
50 g
Baking powder
0.5 g
Method
Add baking powder to refined wheat flour (control) and millet flour blends and sieve twice.
Creamed fat and powdered sugar.
Blend the cream with flour and make a dough, roll and punch out biscuits
for 30 minutes