Just five days left before bear goes back to school.
Today bear spent in his pyjamas, chilling in the dining room and watching two seasons of the Pac Man cartoon. I didn't let him help with dinner (turkey rather haphazardly marinaded in yogurt, next time I'll use a proper recipe) but we did bake some chocolate grantham biscuits that were a fail on a galactic scale. However there are some potholes in the road that need filling and the biscuits will be better than stone chippings.
I should have known. The recipe called for 4oz butter to 16oz sugar to 14oz flour to 2oz cocoa to one egg. I've lost the recipe I had for them which wasn't like that at all. In the recipe I used to use, you ended up with a crumbly, fragile and toothsome ginger biscuit. These were supposed to be the same crumbling, delicate and spicy morsel but chocolate. They really weren't. Bear couldn't manage one. I begrudge the waste of ingredients.
I'm sure I'll find a good recipe tomorrow.
Too bad the biscuits didn't turn out. You had me running to check one of my homemade cookbooks that I put together, in my late teens(!) copying recipes and/or cutting from magazines and pasting. I knew I had a recipe for something called Grantham Gingerbreads which I had made once (but only once, because the resulting cookies were hard as rocks!) Anyway, my recipe (cut from a pre1973 magazine) calls for 4 oz. butter or margarine, 12 oz. caster sugar, 1 large egg, beaten, 9 oz. self-raising flour, and 1 level teaspoonful ground ginger. Aha! I think I've discovered the reason why my biscuits turned out so hard - the recipe called for self-raising flour and I only had regular, all-purpose flour and didn't know enough at the time to add baking powder to it to substitute for self-raising flour! No wonder my biscuits didn't puff up as described in the recipe! LOL. Did your recipe specify self-raising flour?
ReplyDeletemy late mum used to make the most awesome Grantham gingerbread biscuits, I wish I still had the recipe, knowing me I would fail on epic proportions, so better that I just have memories. By the way I love the word toothsome, pity it isn't used more often.
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