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Thursday 4 June 2009

Tau Sar Pneah (Tambun Biscuits)

Among the many varieties of local chinese biscuits, tau sar pneah is my favourite. This crumbly and fragrant biscuit when eaten freshly made is just the best, be warned to have a plate handy to catch the crumbs! At home in Penang, I was lucky enough to live close by one of the biscuit factories so always have first dibs on the fresh batch!

My attempt to make this biscuit started with a long string of disasters. Unclear instructions in the recipe, tedious skin removing process from the green beans and finally being so tired I mixed up the 2 doughs in the wrong order with a final result of extemely crumbly biscuits. However, the taste was spot on which encouraged me to try again so after another 3 hours of picking the skin off another batch of soaked green beans the results below...perfect!


The painstakingly skinned beans and fresh out of the oven!

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4 comments:

  1. Swinging Senorita20 June 2009 at 12:19

    I am super impressed! I would never have mistaken you for the cooking kind!

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  2. Swinging Senorita20 June 2009 at 12:21

    I would never have mistaken you for the culinary kind of gal. Nice work. Looks just like the ones from the Southern Bank building near our place, eh?

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  3. Pauline20 June 2009 at 12:49

    Neither did I! Domesticity is like oil to my water...must have trodden down a wrong path at some point!!..hey, took me a while to figure who you are Swinging Senorita ;-)

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  4. Swinging Senorita25 June 2009 at 11:04

    Sssh, don't tell people who I really am. Love your food blog, tho. Sometimes when I am walking down the supermarket aisles, I think to myself, "Maybe I should do some serious cooking this weekend..." Then down a few aisles later, "Nah, who am I kidding? I'd rather sleep!"

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