{"id":311,"date":"2006-11-29T14:48:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T13:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=311"},"modified":"2025-06-02T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:04:20","slug":"gingerbread-men-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Men recipe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>as requested on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/raspberryfairy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Gingerbread Men Recipe!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where this recipe came from! But it works well \ud83d\ude42 and the kids love it, just the right amount of Ginger!<\/p>\n<p>12oz Plain Flour<br \/>\n1 teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda<br \/>\n2.5 teaspoons of ground Ginger<br \/>\n4oz unsalted butter<br \/>\n6oz Light brown soft sugar<br \/>\n1 egg &#8211; beaten<br \/>\n4 tablespoons <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_syrup\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Syrup<\/a><br \/>\npre-heat the oven to 190 degrees C<\/p>\n<p>sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ground ginger together in a mixing bowl<\/p>\n<p>chop the butter into small pieces, and rub into dry mixture until the consistency of fine breadcrumbs, then add the sugar and mix together<\/p>\n<p>mix the beaten egg and golden syrup together, and add to the mixture, mixing together to form a dough<\/p>\n<p>Now the fun begins!<br \/>\nRoll out on a floured surface to about 3mm thick, then cut out what ever shapes you want. Put onto a lightly greased or lined baking sheet, decorate and cook for approximately 10 to 15 minutes depending on size of biscuit. I tend to check the colour and spread of the biscuit.<\/p>\n<p>When they are cooked, leave on the baking sheet for a few minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack, and leave to cool completely.<\/p>\n<p>Then eat!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1030\" title=\"pink\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/2008\/02\/gingerbread_blog8765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--themify_builder_static--><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as requested on Flickr! Gingerbread Men Recipe! I&#8217;m not sure where this recipe came from! But it works well \ud83d\ude42 and the kids love it, just the right amount of Ginger! 12oz Plain Flour 1 teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda 2.5 teaspoons of ground Ginger 4oz unsalted butter 6oz Light brown soft sugar 1 egg &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-and-family-and-food","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}