Old Fashioned Ginger Nut Biscuits
Ingredients:
10 oz of plain flour
7 oz of sugar – half caster sugar/half soft brown
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
2 teaspoons of ground ginger
1 ½ teaspoons of baking powder
6 oz butter/margarine
1 tablespoon of golden syrup or clear honey
2 tablespoons of milk
Method:
Preheat the oven to 160 C. Place all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Melt the butter and syrup over a gentle heat making sure it does not boil. Pour this mixture into the dry ingredients, add the milk and mix thoroughly. Shape into about 36 small balls and place on greased baking sheets spaced well apart and flatten slightly. The biscuits spread to about 2½” across. Bake for 16-18 minutes until browned. Leave to cool on a tray.