Ginger and Honey Biscuits
These ginger and honey biscuits use pretty basic store cupboard ingredients and aren't the most glamorous to look at but they taste good and are an authentic reproduction of this wartime recipe, made when people were living on WW2 rationing recipes.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 12 biscuits 1x
- Category: Snack
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: British
Ingredients
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- 6 oz plain flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 oz caster sugar
- 2 1/2 oz butter
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 2 Tbsp honey
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Cream the butter and sugar together then add the honey.
- Sift in the flour, baking powder, ginger and salt and mix to form a dough
- Add a splash of water if necessary to bring the mixture together.
- Roll out to ΒΌ inch thick and cut out biscuit shapes.Β
- Placed on a sheet of grease proof paper and cook in the oven on 180Β°C for 10 minutes or until starting to go golden brown
- Cool on a wire rack.
