Gingernuts

Name: Gingernuts
Yield: Makes 16
Ingredients: 2 oz butter or margarine; 2 oz butter or margarine; 2 oz (or 2 rounded tablespoons) castor sugar; 1 heaped tablespoon golden syrup; ¼ level teaspoon salt; 1 level teaspoon baking powder; 1 level teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 1 level teaspoon ground ginger; 4 oz (or 4 rounded tablespoons) plain flour

Preparation info

Makes
16

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Pooh Cook Book

By Katie Stewart

Published 1979

About

Ingredients

4 oz (or 4 rounded tablespoons) plain flour
¼ level teaspoon

Dessert
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Find a mixing bowl, a sieve, a wooden spoon and a small saucepan. You will also need a saucer to hold the sugar for coating the gingernuts and a tumbler to squash them flat. Find a baking tray and grease it lightly, and a wire cooling tray. Turn on the oven heat to moderate (350 °F or Gas No 4) and find a pair of oven gloves.

Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, bicarbonate of