We have been trying not to spend any money on food leading up to Christmas. I need to make room for the Christmas baking and my yearly budget is getting low. Whilst I had the oven on making bread at the beginning of the week, I made these biscuits. Our biscuit barrel was empty. It was a recipe given to me by my Auntie in the 70s. Mr S was hankering after biscuits, and I was able to make these without using too many of my precious ingredients. These have a lovely snap and taste really nice.
Ingredients
4oz of Self Raising flour
1 tsp ground ginger
Half a tsp of bicarbonate of soda
20z butter or margarine
2oz golden syrup
2oz sugar
2tsp milk.
Method
- Sift the flour, ginger, and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl.
- In a jug put the butter, syrup and sugar and heat in the microwave until melted (can be done in a pan).
- Pour into the dry ingredients and mix.
- Add the milk and mix well.
- Make 18 to 20 small balls (walnut sized). You can freeze them at this point and bake at a later date.
- Cook at 170C for about 15 minutes until golden brown
- Leave them on the tray to firm up until cool.
- Store in an airtight container
They do work out a bit more expensive than buying biscuits from discount shops, but they taste much better and there is no palm oil or other hidden nasties. Mr S has finished them already and so I guess I will be making them again the next time that the oven is on!