Mrs Bauer’s Terrassen Biscuits

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180˚C/350˚F/Gas Mark 4.

2. Put the flour and sugar into a bowl; rub in the cold butter as for shortcrust pastry. Gather the mixture together and knead lightly. Roll out to 5mm (1/4 inch) thick. Cut into biscuits of whatever shape you choose of equal numbers. Bake in the preheated oven until they are pale brown, 10 - 15 minutes. Remove and cool on a rack.

3. You may need to gather the pastry together a couple of times and reroll it after each cutting.

4. When the biscuits are cold place the largest one on a sheet of parchment paper, take the medium-size biscuit and butter some jam on the base, then place down in the centre of the larger biscuit, then take the smallest biscuit and butter some jam on the base of that and places carefully into the centre of the medium size biscuit then dust with icing sugar. Repeat with the rest of your biscuits.