Ginger Biscuits (Alternate)

Ingredients

• 1lb. Flour
• 4)b. Margarine
• 6ozs. Sugar
• 5lb. Treacle
• 2 Teaspoons Ginger
• 2 Teaspoons Bicarb. Soda
• 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
• Pinch Salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil margarine, sugar, and treacle together in a pan, pour into flour and the other ingredients.

2. 2

   Mix altogether.

3. 3

   Mix the bi-carb. in a little milk before mixing into the flour.

4. 4

   Roll into balls with the palm of the hand and place on a greased tin and bake quickly.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewives' book of recipes & hints (1940) by Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence (Great Britain), page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 Teaspoon Baking Powder Muariop— Beat sugar and fat to a cream, add the egg, stirring in quickly and beating well. Stir in the flour and baking nowder and mix all together, adding milk and nutmeg. Sufficient fer tifteem small buns, L. TuRNER, Hopton Lane. ALMOND SLICES. Pastry-—Jam 2 Tablespoons Syrup 4 lb. Quaker Oates 1 Tablespoon Flour 4 avs. Margarine 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder 2 ozs. Sugar Almond Flavouring to taste Mix margerine and sugar toa cream. Add syrup (warmed), flonr nd Baking Powder; lastly oats and flavouring. Roll pastry out size of tiu and puta thin layer of jam over it, then cover with the mixture, Turn edges of pastry over and bake in oven till golden brown. When cold cut into slices. Mrs. BREARLEY, 9, Chapel Street. - 17 | BISCUITS. GINGER BISCUITS—War Time. — alb. Flour - Yozs. Treacle 3ozs. Fat 1 Teaspoonful Ginger 2oz3. Sugar Teaspoonful BakingPowder 4 Teaspoonful Carbonate Soda mix in a little Milk Mrs. KInG, King Street ~ OATMEAL BISCUITS. 6 Tablespoons Flour 3oz. Fat 5 Tablespoon Oatmea! 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder Bok. Sugar. - |) Egg ANON Cs ke ONAPS. 6ozs. Flour 2 Tablespoonsful Honey or 2oz. Butter 13 Tablespoonsful Golden Syrup 2ozs. Castor Sugar 1 Teaspoonful of Ground Ginger © 1 Teaspoonful of Carbonate of Soda Pinch of Salt Metuap—Cream butter and sugar, warm syrup, make into a stiff dough. Dissolve bi-carbonate in a dessertspoonful of hot water. Pull off pieces of dough size of a walnut. Bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes. . SCHOLEFIELD, Gregory Springs, Road Pee GER. BISCUITS. 1lb. Flour 2 Teaspoons Ginger 4)b. Margarine 2 Teaspoons Bicarb. Soda 6ozs. Sugar 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder 5lb. Treacle Pinch Salt

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