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............. OK, I'll show you mine, if you'll show me yours.  I thought it would be fun to all post a Christmas recipe, so I'll tell you how to make my gingerbread men/snowmen/blobs.

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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