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It’s the last weekend of the month, so time to get out the oven gloves. Today it was ginger biscuits. Again stolen from my grandmother’s hand-written cookery book, and again rediculously easy.
Ingredients for 20 - 25 biscuits
170g (6oz) self-raising flour
Three quarters of a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
70g (2.5oz) of sugar
1 teaspoon of ground ginger
70g (2.5oz) of margarine
115g (4oz) of Golden Syrup
A pinch of salt
In it’s natural state (as it comes out of the can or bottle) Golden Syrup is too gloopy to mix, so pour your 115g into a small glass, and put this in a bowl of hot water so that it is gently warmed. This makes it much more runny, and easier to work with later on.
Put the margarine, flour and salt in a large bowl and rub them together with your hands until they form find breadcrumbs. It feels like nothing’s happening to start with (apart from your fingers getting greasy) but after a few minutes it suddenly works. Once you have the crumbs, add the sugar, ginger and bicarbonate of soda. Mix them in.
Now add the warmed syrup and stir it all together. It should be a gentle caramel colour and be holding itself together quite well.
Lightly grease a baking tray with some butter or margarine, and make small balls of your biscuit mixture. When cooked these spread a long way, so make the balls about two-thirds the size of a golf ball, flatten them slightly and then lay them on the tray with a lot of space between each one. Generally they seem to spread to about 8cm (3in) diameter.
Bake them in a moderate oven (160
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