From memory, my mum and dad worked with Mr Young before any of us were twinkles in their eyes. When my brothers and I were little we would be taken to visit Mr and Mrs Young in Melbourne, which is where we discovered these yummy biscuits. Mrs Young kindly shared the recipe with my mum, and as we've left home, we have each taken a copy of the recipe with us.
Ingredients
4 ounces of butter (or about 115 grams)
1 cup caster sugar
1 egg
1 dessertspoon ground ginger *
2 tablespoons golden syrup
2 cups SR flour
* We like our biscuits really gingery, and so add 2 dessertspoons. If we have any crystalised ginger we also chop that up into tiny pieces and add that as well for extra ginger chewiness.
Method
Melt butter.
Add sugar, syrup, egg, ginger.
Mix well.
Add SR flour and stir to combine.
Roll into balls and place on a baking tray.
Bake in a moderate oven (180 degrees) for 15 - 20 minutes. **
** Err on the lower side to make sure you have chewy biscuits and not tooth breakers! Unless you like your ginger biscuits to be very hard and crunchy of course!
There you go - super easy!
