Cookies

Gingerbread cookies

From
Gunna Sig
Oven
190–200 °C190–200 °C (375–400 °F)

Ingredients

  • 180 g butter6½ oz butter
  • 500 g plain flour1 lb plain flour
  • 250 g sugar9 oz sugar
  • 4 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 dl golden syrup (light cane syrup)½ cup golden syrup (light cane syrup)
  • 2 tsp ground cloves
  • 1 dl milk½ cup milk
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • ½ tsp ground black pepper
  • 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)

Method

  1. Heat the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan until the butter has melted and the sugar dissolved. Take off the heat and stir in the milk.
  2. Mix the flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda, stir them in and knead to a smooth dough. Wrap and chill for a few hours or overnight.
  3. Heat the oven. Roll the dough out thinly and cut out shapes. Place on baking sheets lined with baking paper.
  4. Bake at 190–200°C for 7–10 minutes on the bottom shelf.Bake at 375–400 °F for 7–10 minutes on the bottom shelf.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Piparkökur (Hús)
(Gunna Sig)
180gr. smjör - 500gr. hveiti 250gr. sykur - 4 tsk. kanill 1 dl. sýróp - 2 tsk. negull 1 dl. mjólk - 2 tsk. engifer 1/2 tsk. pipar - 2 tsk. natron
190°c - 200°c í 7 - 10 min. neðst