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MINOR MILLETS

BAKERY PRODUCTS

Biscuits

Biscuits are popular snack foods world wide 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
Little millet / kodo millet flour	30 g
Shortening	50 g
Powdered sugar	50 g
Baking powder	0.5 g

Method

Baking powder was added to refined wheat flour (control) and millet flour blends and sieved twice.
Fat and powdered sugar were creamed, blended with flour and made to dough, rolled and biscuits were punched out, baked at 140 for 30 minutes, cooled and packed in polythene bags.