Ginger Biscuits & Wholewheat Gingerbread

I love gingerbread & biscuits! Strangely enough, I cannot stand ginger in any other form - I hate it in main meals, but I like these! The best gingerbread in the world is made in a little shop in the English Lake District, if you're ever there, you have to buy some. Its much, much nicer, as well as more gingery than mass-produced gingerbread, or the gingerbread recipe here.

Ginger Biscuits

Ingredients

60g margarine
50g soft brown sugar
1 tablespoon syrup
100g self raising flour
2.5mls bicarbonate of soda
5mls ground ginger

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to gas mark 3 or 170 degrees C

  • Lightly grease one baking sheet

  • Melt the sugar, margarine and syrup in a small pan. Cool slightly.

  • Sieve the flour, ginger and bicarb into a bowl. Take care there are no lumps!

  • Add the syrup mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.

  • Form into 16 balls and place on the baking tray.

  • Bake for about 15 minutes, until firm and golden.

I've never actually tried this, but apparently, if you want your biscuits to be a bit crinkly, take the tray from the oven 5 minutes before the cooking is complete and bang the tray on a hard surface before returning it to the oven.

Wholewheat Gingerbread

Ingredients

100g plain flour
2.5mls ground cinnamon
5mls bicarbonate of soda
100g wholewheat flour
50g demerara sugar
50g candied peel
100g treacle
1.25mls salt
15mls ground ginger
50g sultanas
100g margarine
100g syrup
5 fluid ounces of milk
1 large egg
10g flaked almonds

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to gas mark 2 or 150 degrees C

  • Prepare a shallow baking tin by greasing, and then lining with greaseproof paper.

  • Sieve plain flour, salt, cinnamon, ginger and bicarb into a bowl.

  • Add wholewheat flour, sugar, peel and fruit. Mix all together well.

  • Melt syrup, treacle and margarine in a pan.

  • Mix the egg and the milk together.

  • Pour both liquids into dry ingredients.

  • Mix well until you get a very soft consistency.

  • Pour into the tin you prepared earlier.

  • Sprinkle the almonds on top.

  • Bake in the centre of the oven for about an hour.

Back to Recipes

If the menu above doesn't work for you, then you can access the pages of the site from the Site Map

logo

© Aeron McCarthy, 2002