Gingerbread People

Name: Gingerbread People
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Makes: 12 biscuits
Cuisine: Sweden
Ingredients: 1 tsp ground mixed spice; 120 g / 4 oz butter; 3–4 tbs milk currants for eyes and buttons white icing for piping (optional); 90 g / 3 oz dark muscovado sugar; 230 g / 8 oz self-raising flour; 2 tsp ground ginger

Preparation info

Makes:
12
biscuits

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
15 min

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

Home-made gingerbread men are part of childhood. They feature principally in Scandinavian cooking, where they are even more richly spiced. In her book Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora Thompson remembers gingerbread men on sale in her Oxfordshire village during the nineteenth century.

Ingredients

230 g / 8 oz self-raising flour
90 g / 3

Europe
Sweden
Vegetarian
Cookies
Mediterranean

Method

Sieve the flour, sugar, ginger and mixed spice into a mixing bowl. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Mix to a dough with the milk. On a lightly floured board, roll out the dough until 5 mm/ ¼ i