{"id":1485,"date":"2013-02-22T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T13:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suppersfromscratch.wordpress.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2013-04-24T19:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:32:57","slug":"ginger-biscuit-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"Ginger Biscuit Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suppersfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ginger-cookies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1215\" alt=\"Ginger Cookies\" src=\"http:\/\/suppersfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ginger-cookies.jpg\" width=\"490\" height=\"737\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Now I know that everyone is after healthy recipes to keep that New Year, New You goodness going. But this week I could resist making a batch of ginger and oatmeal cookies. \u00a0I don&#8217;t feel to bad about this because they are part of my whole spread the love through little things campaign that \u00a0I am currently working on. And I only ate one. The rest were devoured by others. See I am practically a saint. So if you are trying to be healthy, why not make these as a treat for someone else, or just treat yourself because it is so darn cold and quite frankly they go down mighty well with a cup of tea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">So there we go, all the reasons why you should make these now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Well what are you waiting for &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">oh yes the recipe \u00a0&#8211; Here we go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><em>Ingredients \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">4oz butter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">1 tbsp golden syrup<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">1oz dark brown sugar<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">2 oz caster sugar<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">2tsp ground ginger<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">2oz plain flour<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">1\/2tsp baking powder<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">1\/2t tsp ground cinnamon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">6oz rolled oats<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">1 egg<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">2oz dark chocolate for the top<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Method<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Preheat your oven to 180C degrees<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Melt the butter and golden syrup in a bowl over a pan of boiling water<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Combine the sugars, flour, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon and oats in a bowl<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Once the butter is melted pour your dry ingredients into butter and syrup mix and combine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Beat the egg in a separate bowl and then stir in, mix until everything is combined<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper and spoon a generous teaspoon of mixture ( space them reasonably generously as they will spread)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Bake for 10 mins, remove from the oven and leave to cool<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">In a double boiler melt your dark chocolate. Once the cookies have cooled use a spoon to drizzle the chocolate over. Alternatively you can dunk the biscuits half in the chocolate so they are half and half<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/suppersfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ginger-cookie-landscape.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1216\" alt=\"Ginger Cookie Landscape\" src=\"http:\/\/suppersfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ginger-cookie-landscape.jpg?w=490\" width=\"490\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Whatever you do, enjoy eating one at least and then package up the rest for someone you love. Why not try it this weekend?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I know that everyone is after healthy recipes to keep that New Year, New You goodness going. But this week I could resist making a batch of ginger and oatmeal cookies. \u00a0I don&#8217;t feel to bad about this because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/?p=1485\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppersfromscratch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}