Ginger Biscuits

[kedigato]

Ginger biscuits (20 – 24 biscuits)


120g soft butter
120g caster sugar
1 dessertspoon golden syrup
1 egg yolk
200g plain flour
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 heaped teaspoon ground ginger (or more to taste - I put 3 heaped teaspoons in )
1 pinch salt
1 pinch mixed spice
1 pinch ground cloves and / or ground nutmeg

- cream butter and sugar together
- beat in the golden syrup and egg yolk
- sift flour, cream of tartar, bicarbonate of soda, ginger, salt and the spices
- work them in until the mix becomes a firm dough
- break off small pieces of dough, shape into balls and place well apart on a baking sheet
- press down lightly to partly flatten them
- bake for 10 – 12 minutes until golden brown
- Transfer to a wire rack to cool


Preheat oven to 170°C / gas Mark 3


Enjoy!

[nazimundo]

Be over for coffee and a handful later Kedi ;D ;D

Alfie

[capney]

Do you lnow I hate stem ginger, but I love ginger biscuits!
This reecipe will do for me, thankyou

[kedigato]

Alfie, we waited until just after 4pm, guess you must have missed the plane. So I ate your share for you. ;D ;D

BTW, if any of you make this recipe, I have altered the amount of ginger. When my cousin made them here, she also put more in than the recipe called for. I mean, if they are ginger cookies, then they should really taste of ginger, correct?

Hope you like them, Robert.

Oh, mine were not nice and hard like the bought ones are, they had a "soft crispiness".

[DAG]

That sounds good to me but I will not be tempted to eat biscuits right now while trying to lose weight........well, not most of the time anyway! ;D

[shadowdragon]

Are biscuits the same thing over there as they are here? Those sound more like a ginger snap cookie to me but then over here biscuits usually aren't sweet, are made with buttermilk and served with chicken or topped with sausage gravy.

[kedigato]

Biscuits are cookies in England, Audra. What you know as biscuits would be soft bread rolls in England.

Yes, they are ginger snap cookies.

[shadowdragon]

Really? Wow. LOL, I can just imagine the look on the face of the waiter if I ordered biscuits and gravy over there.

So if our biscuits are soft bread rolls, then what do they call yeast rolls? Because the two are very different textures and flavors.

[kedigato]

Well, I guess just rolls. As far as I know, all (?) of the bread (rolls) over here, in England and Germany, are made with yeast. If I am wrong, please would someone correct me.

This Buttermilk recipe - naturalworld.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=cake&thread=703&page=1#3477 - is an American one and I don't know of anyone who knows it over here.

Yes, the waiter would look at you strangly if you ordered biscuits and gravy over here. ;D ;D