recipe from the website glycemic index South Africa

ORANGE AND LEMON BISCUITS Makes 30

125 ml flour ( ½ cup)

125 ml whole wheat Pronutro ( ½ cup)

10 ml baking powder

2 ml ground nutmeg

375 ml oats, pressed down (1 ½ cups)

100 ml "lite" margarine

125 ml sugar

1 ml salt

1 egg

15 ml grated orange rind (rind of one orange)

50 ml lemon juice (juice of one lemon)

Sift flour, baking powder and nutmeg together; then add

Pronutro and oats. Set aside.
Cream butter and sugar and salt, add the egg, orange rind, and

stir well.
Add the dry ingredients alternately with the lemon juice, and

mix well. If too dry, add a little more lemon juice.
Drop teaspoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet, and bake at

190 C for 15- 20 minutes, until the biscuits just start to go

brown.
NUTRIENTS PER BISCUIT

Glycaemic index: 60

Fats 2g

Fats 2g

Fats 2g

Fats 2g, Carbohydrate 9g, Fibre 1g, Protein 1g, kJ 259

These are lovely rock cake like tangy biscuits.
Quick and easy to make.

RD NOTE: Taking all the sugar out does not lower the GI since

it is the cake flour that has the high GI effect. Therefore, using

sweetner has NO advantage.