Swedish Gingerbread
By: Jenny Colgan
Published: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 7:11am

Ingredients




2 deciliters granulated sugar
3/4 deciliter water
3 tablespoons of golden syrup
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cloves
125 grams butter
8 deciliters app. of plain flour
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

Preparation

1 Let the sugar, water, syrup and spices boil in a pan for a couple of minutes. Keep stirring. 2 Take the pan of the heat and add the butter. Let it melt in the mixture. 3 Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda with a little bit of water, and mix with the flour. 4 Mix it all together and let the dough rest over night. 5 Heat the oven to 200C 6 With a rolling pin, try to get the dough fairly thin. 7 Cut out shapes with your most "christmassy" biscuit cutters, and bake in the oven for abut 5 minutes. 8 Let cool down on a baking rack.