Timorese Ladder Biscuits Recipe by Otilia Li and Yalang Enke
Timorese Ladder Biscuit
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes:
Try not to eat all the biscuits on day one, as the flavor gets better (sweeter and more licorice) the next day or two.
About the Bakers
Two cousins, Yalang Enke and Otilia Li, wanted to document and share recipes from their traditional Chinese-Timorese heritage with Portuguese and Indonesian influences. Yalang and Otilia were both born in East Timor (also known as Timor-Leste) and left East Timor at a young age. Yalang at age 3 and Otilia at age 6 months. It was tradition for these recipes to be handed down from mother to daughter via word of mouth and hands on experience. However, having grown up in Australia, Yalang and Otilia realized that many of their generation were not motivated to learning these amazing recipes (including themselves). Therefore, before these recipes are lost forever, Yalang and Otilia aim to research, recreate, test and document all the amazing traditional Chinese-Timorese recipes. For more of their amazing recipes, visit their website/blog.