Basic recipes - 8 recipes
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Top rated Basic recipes
Basic white sauce
By Jonespe
A need to know basic for many other sauces
- 2 tbsp cornflour
- 1 pint milk
Basic Sweet Biscuits
By josephine
Cream butter and sugar together
- 200g butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 350g self-raising flour
- 2 eggs
Boo's Best Basic Biscuit
By bexibell
Quick and easy biscuit recipe, can be used for large and small buscuit cutters/shapes
- 150g Plain Flour
- 100g Butter
- 50g Sugar
- (makes 12 small biscuits)
Basic Fridge Cheesecake
By JennaC16
Very easy cheesecake
- Filling:
- 1 tin condensed milk
- ½ cup lemon juice
- 1 tub smooth cream cheese
- Rind of 1 lemon
- Base:
- 1 packet digestive biscuits
- 2 tablespoons golden syrup
- 4 tablespoons margarine
Basic Pasta Dough
By ClarMarie1988
This is the recipe I use to make my pasta dough for Lasagne and Ravioli, although it does work well for other types...
- 00 Grade Flour or 'Pasta' Flour - 100g per person
- Large Eggs at Room Temperature - 1 per person
- Salt (If required)
Basic Cake Plain/Chocolate
By Jordan4321
This is a really easy, quick and simple cake to make
- 200g of butter
- 200g of caster sugar
- 4 eggs
- 200g of self raising flour/ 175g of flour if you want it to be chocolate
- 25g of coco is you would like it to be a chocolate cake.
Basic Bun's
By bethiboo97
Basic quick and easy buns
- 100g of self raising flower.
- 100g of sugar.
- 2 eggs.
Basic Brownie Recipe
By Badgertails, Badgertails ~ Homemaker
This is a perfect base recipe for plain brownies, or for you to make your own adaptations
- 6½ oz unsalted butter
- 6½ oz milk chocolate (I used Cadbury's Dairy milk)
- 3 oz plain flour
- 1½ oz cocoa powder
- 10 oz golden caster sugar
- 3 large eggs
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