Gingerbread Men:
Ingredients
350g plain flour
100g butter
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 tsp ground ginger
1 egg
4 tbsps Golden Syrup
175 g light, soft brown sugar
Method
Preheat the oven to 180 C/350 F/Gas Mark 4
Put the flour, butter, bicarb and ginger in a bowl and mix to fine breadcrumbs
Add the egg, syrup and sugar and mix to a firm dough
Chill for 30 mins. (I meant the dough, not you.)
Dust your surface and rolling pin with flour and roll out to about 5 mm thick
Cut out shapes of men, trees, blobs or whatever you want, and put them on a baking tray, leaving room for them to spread, just as I did as I got older
Cook for 10 - 15 mins
Cool them on a wire rack, and decorate as you wish.
This makes about 15 men.
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I only have drink recipes..
ReplyDeletewell, not all :-) x x x
Oh Boy, that's just what I need. Next time I'll bake ahead, just for more atmosphere. Is golden syrup what we call corn syrup?
ReplyDeleteI like Soggibottom's recipe ideas:) I keep it simple and just pore a glass of wine. If I weren't going to church I'd have some now.
One of my standby recipes for Christmas Pot Luck Parties:
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1 can Cr. of Chicken Soup
1 Tbsp. gelatin dissolved in 3 Tbsp. water
8 oz. cream cheese
Mix ingredients in saucepan, heat to melt
cream cheese.
Add:
2 c. chopped celery
1 c. chopped green onions
8-12 oz. crab or imitation crab
fold in crab. then add 1 Tbsp. lemon juice,
1 c. mayonnaise.
Spray a molding pan with PAM, and
mold for 24 hours.
This is a great mold to take for a Christmas pot luck. Everyone loves it. I bring Ritz crackers and surround a Christmas Tree mold. It’s very festive because of the red crab and the green celery.
These are my hubby's favorite from my brother's bakery.
ReplyDeleteCHOCOLATE JUMBO COOKIE
CREAM TOGETHER
1/2 CUP COCOA
2 1/2 CUP SUGAR
1 1/4 LB BUTTER
1/2 TABLESPOON BAKING POWDER
1 TABLESPOON SALT
ADD & CREAM
4 LARGE EGGS
MIX TOGETHER - BUT DO NOT OVERMIX
6 CUPS UNSIFTED BLEACHED PASTRY FLOUR
BAKE AT 375 DEGREES FOR 10 MINUTES
CHOCOLATE ICING
2 CUP POWDERED SUGAR
2 TABLESPOON COCOA
4 OZ OF HOT WATER TO JUST MOISTEN
DASH OF SALT TO TASTE