Gingerbread People

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

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