Ginger Snaps

The recipe comes from one of my old English Cookery books...

Ingredients:

4oz plain flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1+1/2 tsp ground ginger, 2oz butter, 1+1/2oz caster sugar, 1level tablespoon golden syrup, milk to mix

Sift flour and ginger. Rub in butter finely. Add sugar. Mix to very stiff paste with golden syrup and milk. Roll out very thinly and cut into 26-30 rounds with 2in(5cm) biscuit cutter...or as you like...

Trasfer to a buttered baking trays and bake just above centre of moderate oven (180 °C) fot 10 minutes. Leave on trays for 1 to 2 minutes before trasferring to wire cooling rack...

...a very tasting biscuit because of the ground ginger, but the ingredient that would add it the special consistency and flavour is the English butter...from English cow milk...SO GOOD!!!

...if you miss it...these Ginger Snaps won't be the same!!!