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Howard from the Bake Off plus lawn advice

David Hedges-Gower with top advice to help make your lawn the envy of your neighbours plus Howard and Christine from GBBO reveal how to make some delicious raspberry biscuits.

On the Garden Café, Phil Mercer will be joined by David Hedges-Gower who'll be dispensing some top advice to help make your lawn the envy of your neighbours. After 1pm Christine Wallace will be accompanied by fellow Great British Bake Off contestant Howard Middleton to help make some delicious rose-scented raspberry biscuits.

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Sun 22 Mar 2015 12:00

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Howard's rose-scented raspberry biscuits

Howard's rose-scented raspberry biscuits
Howard Middleton from the Great British Bake Off came in to join Phil Mercer and Christine Wallace and made some rather lovely rose-scented raspberry biscuits.
With freeze-dried raspberries and aromatic rose extract, treat yourself to a gluten-free biscuit with the scent of summer any time of the year. 
Makes about 15 
Ingredients:230g rice flour, plus extra for rolling 120g potato flour 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1 tsp xanthan gum 110g cold unsalted butter, cubed 150g caster sugar 3 tsp freeze-dried raspberries 1 large egg, beaten 4 tbsp honey 1 or 2 drops of rose extract (such as Holy Lama Spice Drops), or a few drops of rosewater To decorate 50g organic white chocolate about 3 tsp freeze-dried raspberries 
˛Ń±đłŮłó´Ç»ĺĚý1 Put the flours, bicarbonate of soda and xanthan gum in a large mixing bowl and rub through the butter until there are no lumps visible. 2 Stir in the sugar and freeze-dried raspberries. 3 Mix the egg with the honey and rose extract and add this to the bowl, stirring with a knife, then kneading it together by hand to form a ball. Wrap in cling film and chill for at least 30 minutes to firm up. 4 Preheat the oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5 and line your baking sheets with baking parchment. 5 On a floured surface, roll out the dough to about 6mm thick and stamp out shapes (flowers or circles) about 10cm in diameter. Transfer to the baking sheet and bake for about 12 minutes until golden brown. (The biscuits will firm up on cooling.) 6 When the biscuits are cold, drizzle with melted white chocolate (I masked off all but a circle in the centre of the biscuit) and sprinkle on more freeze-dried raspberries.

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  • Sun 22 Mar 2015 12:00