Ingredients

• 50g/2oz porridge oats
• 75g/3oz wholemeal flour
• plus a little extra
• pinch fine sea salt
• ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• ½ tsp ground mixed spice
• 75g/3oz baking spread
• plus extra for greasing
• 50g/2oz pear or apple spread/purée

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5 and grease and flour two baking sheets.
• Mix together the oats
• flour
• salt
• bicarbonate of soda and mixed spice.
• Cream the margarine in a bowl and beat in the pear and apple spread/purée
• a little at a time. Beat in the oat mixture.
• Place walnut sized portions of the mixture on a baking sheet
• leaving a space of about 5cm/2in round each one. Flatten them slightly
• with a fork.
• Bake the biscuits for 15 minutes or until they are beginning to turn golden. Leave the biscuits on the baking trays until they are cool and firm.