Gareth : Family Recipes
Gingernuts
  1. Use a wooden spoon for all the beating and mixing
  2. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan.
  3. Stir in the golden syrup.
  4. Stir in the sugar.
  5. Beat in (by hand) the egg.
  6. Beat in the baking soda, making sure there are no lumps.
  7. Stir in the ginger.
  8. Start with a cup of flour, and then keep stirring in more until the dough leaves the sides of the pot.
  9. Roll into large marble sized balls and put on greased tray.
  10. Bake 10-12 minutes at 180 degrees celsius.
Breadmaker Bread
  1. Stir the yeast into the warm water in the bottom of the breadmaker tub.
  2. Leave the yeast to activate while you weigh out the dry ingredients in another bowl.
  3. Shake the dry ingredients together.
  4. Stir olive oil into the yeast/water mixture.
  5. Dump the dry ingredients into the yeast/water mixture
  6. Start the regular white recipe on the breadmaker.
Square
  1. Use a wooden spoon for all the beating and mixing.
  2. Melt the butter and syrup together in a medium saucepan.
  3. Stir in the sugar.
  4. Beat in (by hand) the baking powder, making sure there are no lumps.
  5. Stir in the sultanas.
  6. Start with a cup of flour, and then keep stirring in more until the dough leaves the sides of the pot.
  7. Press into a greased swiss roll tray.
  8. Bake 20 minutes at 180 degrees celsius.
  9. Ice while still a little warm (but not too warm) with about a 3/4 cup of icing sugar whisked together with 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder and about 3 tablespooons of boiling water to make a thick paste.
  10. Slice while not yet cold, but when the icing has set a bit