Ginger Shortcake Recipe.

[curiouswombat]

My mouth is less painful than I would expect - really no pain at all.

I have written about fifteen of my Christmas cards.

The ginger shortcake is not bad, it has a sort of frosted topping -

so here is the recipe -



Shortcake

200g (7 oz) butter
100g (3 1/2 oz) caster sugar
250g (9 oz) flour - half plain and half SR, or plain with just under a level teaspoon baking powder
1 heaped teaspoon ground ginger.

Icing
75g (3 oz) butter
1 tablespoonful golden syrup (corn syrup would do I think)
1 heaped teaspoonful ground ginger
75g (3 oz) icing sugar.

Pre-heat oven to 300F, 150C, gas mark 2

Cream butter and sugar, then work in flour and ground ginger.

Press into 8" square tin, and bake for about 40 mins - until golden brown.

Whilst the shortcake is still warm make the topping - melt together the butter and syrup, add ginger and icing sugar and beat until no white bits of icing sugar remain.

Pour over the cake, and cut into fingers whilst still warm, but then leave in the tin to cool.

Makes 16 fingers.

Comments

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

That sounds yummy - thanks for posting the recipe. Might just have to add this to my baking plans - I intend to make a Lemon Syrup loaf cake this weekend, as the one I made for the school Christmas fayre last week looked and smelled delicious.

Your scales look really nifty - mine are the old fashioned balance type but I do have two sets of weights, imperial and metric. It's part of the fun of cooking for the girls, getting the scales to balance and then finding all sorts of other things to weigh too.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The scales are neat, because you can take their own bowl off the top, stick your usual one on, re-zero them, and then add ingredients without having to weigh them seperately - good maths practice!

Mmm - I like the sound of the Lemon syrup loaf cake - you couldn't pass that recipe on could you? (Makes puppy eyes)

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

Happy to pass on the recipe, but before I type it out I'll just check that you haven't got the book, as it's a Nigella from How to be a Domestic Goddess (page 13).

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, despite the icon, I haven't got the book! D-d gave me a Jamie Oliver that Christmas instead.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

No problem, but rather than type it as a comment here I'll post it in my journal. Should be up later today.