Peel off the paper and cut into squares or use a biscuit cutter to cut into rounds.

Use a 10cm round biscuit cutter to cut a circle out of each slice (or you can use a pair of kitchen scissors).

With a 4.5cm biscuit cutter, cut out each raviolo.

Using a biscuit cutter, cut a 5cm hole in the centre of each slice of brioche.

Cut out 10cm/4in circles using a large biscuit cutter then press circles into buttered sections of a 12-hole deep muffin tin.

Stir everything together so that you have a biscuit dough.

Briefly knead the biscuit dough until smooth and pliant, then crumble between your hands encouraging different-sized pieces.

On a surface very lightly dusted with flour, roll out the biscuit dough as thinly as possible — about 3mm, ideally.

Roll the biscuit dough out to a thickness of 6mm.

Roll out the biscuit dough on a lightly floured surface to approximately 2cm thick (the shape doesn't matter as it gets broken into crumbs once cooked).

Lavender may not be the most obvious choice, but it's wonderful for baking with, as in my simple biscuit recipe below.

But for as long as our baking years are still upon us, it's worth having a couple of biscuit recipes logged in the brain.

When pureed with water you can use them to replace 75 per cent of the fat in homemade cakes and biscuit recipes.

Just the strict dry biscuit food and an occasional piece of dry cooked chicken.

He opens it and there's just a dry biscuit inside.

How often has some wonderful piece of verse, some rousing sonnet or impassioned soliloquy been reduced to the verbal equivalent of dried biscuit crumbs by overanalysis?

The soldiers live on rations of precooked, vacuum-sealed meals and dry biscuits, and are sometimes so far from any base that they have to be resupplied by air drops.

The biscuits were loosely based on dry biscuits used on long voyages by sailors.

Highlights included fresh ground coffee and fresh milk in the bedrooms, homemade biscuits, and local handmade toiletries.

Stylish rooms have designer beds as well as fresh flowers and homemade biscuits.

Bringing a tin of homemade biscuits to work to help break to the ice may seem like a good idea, but you'd be mistaken.

And there were (briefly) homemade biscuits in a jar.

I'd recommend one of the standard rooms overlooking the greens where you can enjoy a cup of tea and homemade biscuits while chilling out on your balcony.

This amounts to an extra slice of toast with butter, or a banana and a sweet biscuit, but only after you hit the six-month point.

The century that followed saw sweet biscuits become the snack that filled intervals between meals and savoury ones promoted as something to do you good.

The only three items in the top ten to increase in sales were sweet biscuits, breakfast cereals and vegetables.

Analysis of 479 sweet biscuits found that more than 110 were as salty, or even saltier than, salted popcorn, which has 0.9g per 100g.

Did you know most sweet biscuits can also be frozen?