Makes 9 dozen biscuits
Ingredients
770 g (5 x 250 ml + 125 ml) cake flour
12,5 ml cream of tartar
25 ml ground ginger
5 ml salt
500 g (625 ml) Huletts SunSweet Sugar
250 g butter
225 g Huletts Golden Syrup
3 eggs, beaten
10 ml bicarbonate of soda
20 ml milk
Method
1. Mix the flour, cream of tartar, ginger and salt together.
2. Add the sugar to the flour mixture.
3. Rub the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
4. Melt the syrup, add the beaten eggs and beat together.
5. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the milk and add to syrup mixture.
6. Add the syrup mixture to the dry ingredients and mix to a firm dough.
7. Cover with plastic and leave in fridge overnight.
8. Preheat oven to 180ºC.
9. Roll dough into balls, place onto greased baking tray and flatten slightly.
10. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes.
11. Cool on a wire rack.
Old-fashioned ginger biscuits
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