Dunsyre Blue Cheese Biscuits

There is a really great dairy in the village that has a really great cheese shop. Surprisingly so for our village. We only 'discovered' it a couple of weeks ago, even though it has been there all this time, and we have been back two more times since. I can't tell you all the cheeses we tried yesterday - but I can say they were really good. There was dunsyre blue, criffel, their own cheddar and something called something like, oh, i can't remember.

As blue cheese is currently off the menu for me and since I'm missing it - i decided to make some blue cheese biscuits.

They went like this:
Crumble 175gm of a crumbly blue cheese and mix with 150g softened butter and 1 egg yolk. Stir in 125 g plain flour and either 50g blue cornmeal (that's what Nigella said) or (if you've not such a thing to hand or to buy anywhere nearby) 50g semolina. I did all of that in the food processor. Then knead the mix lightly to a soft dough and rest in the fridge for half an hour. Roll out to 5mm thickness (i think it could have been more) and bake on a lined baking tray at 200 degrees for 10 or so minutes.

They looked like this:


And they tasted like a really fancy cheddar biscuit with a slightly doughy centre and a flaky, biscuity shell. Really good.

(Connage Cheese Dairy http://www.connage.co.uk/ )