Ingredients
500ml of golden syrup (2 cups corn syrup will do)
50
1/16ml dried ginger, the dried, ground spice
8
cups of flour, unsifted
Directions
1.
Mix the golden syrup (or corn syrup), butter, eggs, vinegar, ginger, cinnamon and cloves in a large mixing bowl.
3.
Sift the flour, baking soda and salt into a bowl.
4.
Mix into the syrup-sugar mixture to make a dough or batter.
5.
Cover and put in fridge for a few hours.
6.
Heat oven to 200 deg C/400 deg F. Grease baking tins.
7.
Roll the dough between your palms into little balls the size of walnuts. Place these balls with space between them on greased baking tins.
8.
Press each cookie just slightly flatter with the tines of a fork.
9.
Bake about 12 - 15 minutes or until nicely browned, in center of oven.
10.
Cool slightly in the tins, then cool completely on wire racks.
11.
Keep in airtight tins. About 15 doz cookies.