I'm making biscuits

Well, two and a bit months between entries. Must try harder. Anyway, I'm going to Bradford tomorrow for the 10th Festival of Fantastic Films (and my sixth). It's an annual get together for net friends from all corners of the squatting dog, where normal routines are suspended (like eating before midnight, seeing daylight, that kind of thing). There's also a fair bit of home baking, and I don't like to feel left out, so this year I'm taking some cheese savoury biscuits. Here's how I make them (bear with me, I'm still using imperial measurements):

Ingredients:

5 oz plain/wholemeal flour (combination of the two is good if you have it)
2 oz grated cheddar cheese
2 oz grated cheshire cheese
2 oz butter (at room temp)
1/4 teaspoon salt
Pinch of cayenne pepper
Black pepper (freshly ground)
Whatever's to hand for toppings (optional): celery salt, curry powder, cayenne, anything like that hanging around in cupboards.

First pre heat your oven to gas mark 5 (190C). Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and add the cayenne and black pepper. Then add the grated cheeses and the butter, and rub the mixture between your fingers until it reaches a crumbly stage. Then bring the mixture together, adding a small amount of milk if the mixture is too dry.

Now roll the mixture out on a lightly floured surface, using a rolling pin - you want it about 1/8th inch thick. Cut out the biscuits with a pastry cutter (I have one shaped like a bat, which makes me laugh - that's bat as in Dracula rather than the cricket variety - that wouldn't be funny, that would just be odd), and arrange close together on a baking tray. Sprinkle the biscuits with selected toppings (you don't have to do this, they taste fine naked - that's the biscuits naked, not...oh, you know) and bake on a high shelf in the oven for about 10-12 mins (they should be brown, but not burnt). Take out of the oven and decant onto a wire rack until they cool.

This recipe makes about 30 biscuits.