8oz
plain flower (2.5 cups)
4oz butter or margarine
4oz brown sugar
1 egg
4oz or 2 tablespoons treacle (molasses)
2 teaspoons ground ginger
method:
Mix the flour, ginger and sugar
thoroughly. Melt the butter
in a saucepan and add the treacle
and bring to the boil, stirring
continuously. Turn off the heat
and add the other ingredients,
mixing vigorously with a wooden
spoon. When it has cooled sufficiently
to handle, scoop up a small
quantity of the mixture with
a dessertspoon and push off
with a teaspoon onto a well
greased baking tray or sheet.
Flatten slightly with a fork
and leave space between each
one to allow it to spread. Cook
at 160C/325F/Gas Mark 3 for
25/30 minutes. Use a palette
knife to lift the biscuits off
the tray and store in an air-tight
container.
observations:
Not
cakes at all, but small biscuits which
were first supplied to the gentry and
Members of the Scottish Parliament from
a shop called "Luckie Fykie"
in Waverley, Edinburgh.