Caster Sugar?

[Guest guest]

I found the following recipe for cookies, but what the heck is caster sugar?

It originally had British measurements as well, so maybe it is called

something else here in the US? I can't remember where I got it.

Thanks!

SavarnaRose

 

Cookies

This recipe makes about 40 small (2 inch/6cm) cookies

Ingredients:

3/4 cup caster sugar

3/4 cup vegetable margarine

5 tablespoons of soya milk

1 ½ cups of plain flour

1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)

Preheat oven to 400F and grease cookie sheets. Cream together the sugar and

marg. Mix in the soya milk and vanilla and then the flour. The mixing of the

flour is best done with your hands (messy but fun!). You should have a

workable dough (add more flour if it's too wet or more soya milk if too dry

and doesn't hold together well). Roll out on a floured board (to just under

1 cm thick) and cut into cookies (if you don't have cookie cutters you can

use an upturned glass). Lay on cookie sheets and bake for about 10 minutes

for soft bake cookies or a little longer for dryer, crunchy ones.

Variations:

Add choc, nuts or/and dried fruit

Half dip the cooled cookies in chocolate - choccy biscuits!

Crushed chocolate beans are a colorful replacement for chocolate chips. They

can also be pressed all over the top prior to baking.

Plain cookies with a handful of sesame seeds or desiccated coconut added

into the dough are delicious.

Jewel biscuits: make a hole in the middle of your uncooked cookie once it is

placed on a baking tray and place a boiled sweet in the space - this will

melt down and fill the hole in the oven and then reset once cool - lovely

for Christmas tree decorations!

Plain cookies with a square of chocolate pressed onto them before baking

work well too.