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This Ginger Biscuits Recipe is an old-fashioned recipe which delivers a thin, crisp biscuit that’s the perfect little accompaniment to a warm cup of something.
These biscuits are just the thing to remind you how the simple things in life can be the most wonderful and lovely.
They may not look too special, but the ginger punch combined with the golden syrup sweetness and crispy texture makes these biscuits moreish to the max!
A little therapy with your Ginger Biscuits?
The Ginger Biscuits themselves are lovely, but the process of baking them is also just so soothing.
No noisy mixers.
Just sifting.
Feeling the butter and flour between your fingers.
Weighing and measuring.
Watching the golden syrup slowly make its way into the bowl.
Mixing.
Rolling.
And – my favourite part – cutting out the rounds and laying them carefully on baking trays.
Nana Ling’s Ginger Biscuits recipe
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Ginger Biscuits
Ingredients
- 225 grams SR flour (1 3/4 cup)
- 55 grams caster sugar (1/4 cup)
- 85 grams butter
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 4 tablespoons golden syrup (use only enough to form a dough)
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to moderate (170 degrees celsius, fan forced).
- Sieve flour, bicarb soda and ginger together into a bowl.
- Chop butter into cubes and rub into dry mixture.
- Add sugar and stir through mixture.
- Add enough of the golden syrup to bind the mixture together to form a dough. Add a little additional syrup if required.
- Turn onto a lightly floured surface and roll out as thinly as possible.
- Use a small round cutter (about 5cm diameter) to cut out biscuits.
- Place onto a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Bake for 7-10 minutes.
- Allow to cool.
Clive
Tuesday 17th of January 2023
Love them, substituted erythritol for the sugar, to lower the sugar.
Turned out wonderful and will be a regular part of my repertoire, as I love ginger, in any form.
Greetings from Johannesburg, South Africa.
Libby Hakim
Tuesday 17th of January 2023
Wonderful, thanks for the feedback and idea about sugar substitution – and the lovely greetings. Sending best wishes from Australia! Enjoy the ginger biscuits :)