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| My oldest son Johannes loves these, so he is happy to help. |
Lately I have been visiting old recipes, looking for
something simple from before chia seed, Rapadura sugar and gluten free. Not
that I mind those ingredients at all, I use them too, but I just wanted
old-fashioned and simple. A crunchy
sweet biscuits to put in lunchboxes as a treat. I found these ginger biscuits in
an old cook book of mine. I have made them several times now; my kids love
them and my colleagues love them.
I like them really thin and crispy; and for this I use the
bread cutter that I have (I talked about it in this post Retro Kitchen)… but you can of course slice them with a knife. The recipe
says to roll them into little balls and bake. I tested this, see picture to the left below,
the left biscuit is sliced, the right biscuit is rolled. So depending on how you like your
biscuit – choose your method.
Also you can replace powdered ginger with fresh grated
ginger, one table spoon, to make them healthier.
Ginger Biscuits
Makes about 60
Ingredients:
250g wheat flour
125g butter
225g brown sugar
2 tbsp. powered ginger or 1 tbsp. fresh ginger finely grated
1 tsp. powered cloves
Pinch of salt
½ baking soda
1 egg
Directions:
1.
Chop the softened butter and flour together until
it resembles breadcrumbs (I do this with a knife). Stir into the mixture the
brown sugar, ginger, cloves, salt and baking soda. In a separate bowl beat the
egg and add this to your dough mixture. Now knead until you have an even dough.
2.
Decide how you want your biscuits. You can immediately
roll them into little balls, place them on a baking tray and bake them in your
oven. This gives you a thick biscuit. Or you can roll your dough into rolls/logs,
wrap them in cling wrap and refrigerate them for 1-2 hours or so, or even freeze
the dough for baking later. The ones I make are about 5 cm in diameter. If you
want them nice and round you have to turn or roll the rolls of dough a few
times while they are cooling, otherwise they go flat on one side. Once the
dough rolls are hardened you can slice them to your liking.
3.
Bake in the middle of the oven at 200 degrees
C/400 degrees F for 12 min or until edges are browned.
