Beehive Biscuits

Sweet, crumbly biscuits, flavoured with honey, coconut and dates

Ingredients (Makes 30 biscuits)

1	Egg, beaten
4 tablespoons	Honey
1 teaspoon	Vanilla extract
450g	Coconut
220g	Walnuts (or other nuts) coarsely chopped
220g	Chopped dates
2 tablespoons	Plain flour

Method

Beat together the egg, honey and vanilla.

When well-blended, stir in the coconut and nuts, using a wooden spoon.

Roll the chopped dates in the flour and mix in.

If the mixture is too dry, add a few drops of milk.

Using a tablespoon, drop the mixture onto a greased baking sheet or parchment.

Bake at 170°C (Gas mark 3) for 12 minutes or until turning brown. Keep an eye on the oven, as honey browns quickly.

Honey was used to sweeten food in Tudor times; only the very rich could afford sugar. Bees were often kept by monks, who took the beeswax to make candles for churches and monasteries; the bees pollinated the flowers and fruit trees in the monastery gardens. In ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Friar Laurence would have kept beeswax and honey at his cell in Verona.

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