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1940s recipes - honey and ginger biscuits

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.

Course Snack
Keyword 1940s, biscuits, ginger, honey
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings 6 people

Ingredients

  • 6 oz plain flour
  • 3 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 oz caster sugar
  • 2½ oz butter
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 2 tablespoon honey
  • pinch salt

Instructions

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together then add the honey.

  2. Sift in the flour, baking powder, ginger and salt and mix to form a dough

  3. Add a splash of water if necessary to bring the mixture together.

  4. Roll out to ¼ inch thick and cut out biscuit shapes. 

  5. Placed on a sheet of grease proof paper and cook in the oven on 180°C for 10 minutes or until starting to go golden brown

  6. Cool on a wire rack.