OSMANIA BISCUITS

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Osmania Biscuit is a popular tea biscuit in Hyderabad, Telangana. It is named after the last Asaf Jahi ruler of Hyderabad State, Mir Osman Ali Khan.
It is a very soft tea biscuit made with a mix of all-purpose flour, custard powder and milk powder combined with butter - sugar mix flavoured with cardamom and baked with some glazing over the top with milk and saffron mix. This gives a nice lemony yellowish colour to the biscuit.

Ingredients:
  1. Butter -120 g
  2. Powdered Sugar - 80 g
  3. Milk - 20 ml
  4. All purpose flour -200 g
  5. Custard Powder- 10 g
  6. Milk Powder - 10 g
  7. Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp
  8. Baking Powder - 1/4 tsp
  9. Salt - a pinch

For the Milk wash:
  • Warm milk - 1/2 cup
  • Saffron - a pinch

Method of Preparation:

  • Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
  • Add saffron to the warm milk & mix well. Keep it aside 
  • Take a bowl add butter & powdered sugar. Mix it well till creamy & add milk mix it.
  • Take another bowl, Sieve together all purpose flour, custard powder, milk powder, cardamom powder, baking powder & salt. 
  • Add into the butter and sugar mixture & mix it well to form a soft dough. Roll the dough into a thin sheet
  • Cut them into round shape and arrange the biscuits in the baking tray,
  • Pour the saffron mixture on top of this
  • Bake them at 180c for 15 minutes. Osmania biscuits are ready to eat

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