homemade gingerbreads - recipe

Christmas is coming and so is gingerbread season ! Here I have an awesome recipe how to do these tasty homemade gingerbreads.

INGREDIENTS

1½ dl sugar

1 dl dark syrup

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

½ tsp ground glove

125 g margarine

1 egg

about 5 dl flour

1 tsp baking soda

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Measure sugar, syrup and all the spices to the kettle. Parboil the mixture. Take the kettle off the stove.

2. Cut margarine to smaller pieces. Add margarine pieces to the warm spice mixture. Blend and cool the mixture down.

3. Whip well together egg and the mixture.

4. Add flour-baking soda - mixture through a colander to the dough (spice-margarine-egg-mixture) and blend well.

5. Let dough set until the next day in the fridge. You can also freeze the dough, but remember to take it out off the freezer in order it to dissolve early enough before baking.

6. Split the dough to two or three pieces. Roll out quite thin sheet. Use molds and cut the dough in to different shapes of biscuits. Place the biscuits on to oven pan.

7.  Bake the gingerbreads in the oven 175℃ about 10 minutes or until they are done. Gingerbreads will set when they cool down.

Gingerbreads are a traditional Christmas food in Finland. They are also eating mostly in winter. That's why I thought it would be nice to share this recipe. My family has had this recipe for a decades and this is the only right way to do ginger breads.

You can also decorate your gingerbreads with sugar-water mixture if you want to (get them from the grochery or do it yourself).