Ingredients

• 2 cups - plain flour
• 1 cup - castor sugar
• 1/2 tsp - bicarbonate of soda
• 1 tsp - cinnamon
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 tsp - ground ginger
• 125 g - butter
• 1 small egg
• 1 tsp - golden syrup

How to Make Ginger nut biscuits

• Sift into basin the flour, sugar, soda, cinnamon, salt and ginger.
• Rub in butter until the mixture is fine and crumbly.
• Beat egg with golden syrup, add to dry ingredients.
• Work into a firm dough with hands.
• Take teaspoonfuls of mixture, roll into small balls and place on lightly greased oven trays about 5 cm (2 inch) apart.
• Bake in moderately low oven for about 15 mins.
• Loosen biscuits and cool on trays.