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Granny’s Gingerbread Recipe

Granny’s Gingerbread contains sultanas and wholemeal flour so has a good texture and cuts well and of course most of us started learning beside our mums, even if we then go off experimenting.

Vegetarian
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Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 110g/ 4 oz/½ cup organic self-raising flour (not wholemeal)
  • 110g/ 4 oz/½ cup organic wholemeal self-raising flour
  • 110g/ 4 oz /½ cup butter
  • 150ml/½ pint/ 2/3 cup milk
  • 2 tbsp organic Fairtrade golden syrup
  • 110g/ 4 oz/½ cup organic caster sugar
  • 55g/ 2 oz /¼ cup organic sultanas
  • 2tsp Steenbergs organic Fairtrade ginger powder
  • 1 free range egg (lightly beaten)

Granny’s Gingerbread contains sultanas and wholemeal flour so has a good texture and cuts well and of course most of us started learning beside our mums, even if we then go off experimenting.

Method

01
Preheat the oven to 190°C. Grease a metal baking tray with a pastry (or paint) brush or butter paper; turn the baking tray upside down after greasing with organic sunflower oil to allow any excess oil to drain away.
02
Melt together the organic butter, milk and organic Fairtrade golden syrup in a pan.
03
Put all the dry ingredients into a bowl, sieving the flours. Add themelted butter-syrup liquid and the beaten egg to the dry ingredients. Stir well.
04
Pour into the greased baking tray and bake for about 40 minutes. Test for its readiness with a skewer or gently touching with a finger to seewhether firm. Leave to cool and cut into squares.