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Arrowroot Biscuits

Name: Arrowroot Biscuits
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Ingredients: 100g Potato Starch; 100g All-purpose flour; 80g Butter; 60g Sugar; 1 Egg; A pinch Vanilla Extract; 1/2 tsp Baking Powder

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Crisp biscuits made with Saint Vincent's famous arrowroot starch.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Saint Vincent has long been known as a world producer of arrowroot starch. Fine and easy to digest, arrowroot flour is used for biscuits and porridge. Island homes mix it with wheat flour to bake crisp biscuits.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a kitchen on Saint Vincent, white biscuits lined up on a baking sheet come out of the oven and are served with tea.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Potato Starch 100g
All-purpose flour 100g
Butter 80g
Sugar 60g
Egg 1
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Baking Powder 1/2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cream the softened butter and sugar and add the egg and vanilla.
Sift in the potato starch, flour, and baking powder and mix.
Bring together and rest in the fridge 20 minutes.
Roll 5mm thick, cut with a cutter, and arrange on a baking sheet.
Bake at 170°C for 15 minutes.

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