Ingredients
500g sugar
500g plain flour
600g fruit and nuts (sultana, cherry, apricots, almonds, hazelnuts, pistachio). Do not chop.
Zest of 2 lemons
Up to 3 large eggs.
Preparation
Mix all ingredients except eggs together. Add eggs to make a stiff dough that drops off the spoon.
Put some dough onto an oiled and flour-dusted baking tray to make a wide, flat brick about 1" thick. The mixture will spread in the oven.
Bake at 180C for 20 minutes, until golden and springy.
Take out and cool until bendy.
Turn oven down to 140C
Slice diagonally into 2cm wide strips.
Turn biscuits 90 degrees to bake on edge for ten minutes.
Turn over and bake on other edge for 10 minutes.
