Gingerbread recipe

[winter]

Just sticking it here so that I don't forget, but anyone's welcome to try it. This is Grandmother's foolproof gingerbread recipe. This stuff lasts ages, is very easy on the stomach and tastes divine :)


Ingredients:
500 g flour
4 eggs (yolks and whites separated)
1 glass sugar (doesn't have to be a full glass)
3 spoons honey (or more)
150 g butter
1.5 heaped teaspoons bakin
Tons of raisins, orange peel, almonds, nuts, whatever else you want
1 cup of strong instant coffee
1 sachet of gingerbread spice (or powdered ginger, cinnamon, kardamon, cloves and stuff)

In a saucepan on low fire, melt honey and sugar, using a wooden spoon. Add butter, melt, stir in. Add coffee, stir in. Take the saucepan off the fire, let the mixture cool. Add flour, spice and soda, stir. Add yolks and raisins etc, stir. Beat the whites until stiff, then gently fold into the mixture. Pour into baking vessels, leaving lots of room on top - this stuff grows lots. Bake at 180C for 1 hour, test with a wooden skewer until it's dry-ish.


Also, a very happy birthday to assimbya :)

Comments

[alice_montrose]

I really need to type the filled eggs recipe too. Unless you already know that one (likely).

[winter]

I think I do - I know several. I'm mostly a baker, though lately I've been experimenting with meat, and of course salads due to the diet.