Stem Gingernuts – The Great British Book of Baking

These are the best ginger biscuits I’ve every tasted! my boys agree with me. The relative quantities of ingredients with other ginger biscuit recipes is not major but it obviously is significant. The size of walnuts used in the The Great British Book of Baking: 120 best-loved recipes from teatime treats to pies and pastiesis rather larger than in Mary Berry’s books as well. This recipe made 24 large biscuits. The biscuits were slightly cookie like with a bend rather than a snap. I will be baking these again soon. I’ve used all my stem ginger but I have a jar of crystallised ginger in the cupboard to use up. They stack well and look pretty in cellophane bags with ribbon so would make good presents.

Ingredients

• 350g self raising flour (or 350g plain & 3 tsps baking powder)
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp bicarb of soda
• 200g caster sugar
• 115g unsalted butter
• 85g golden syrup
• 1 free range egg
• 35g (2 pieces) stem ginger drained and finely chopped

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 170C/325F/Gas 3
2. Grease 3 baking trays
3. Gently melt butter and golden syrup in a pan over a low heat and set aside until barely warm.
4. Sift flour, ground ginger, bicarb of soda and sugar in a large mixing bowl
5. Pour cooled and syrup mix, beaten egg and chopped ginger into the bowl with the flour mix and mix with a wooden spoon and combine thoroughly.
6. Roll mixture into 24 (large) walnut sized balls and place on prepared baking trays well apart to allow for spreading.
7. Bake in oven for 15-20 minutes until a good golden brown.
8. Leave biscuits to cool on trays for a couple of minutes then transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.

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