Fabulous Day in the Farm Shop: Saturday 11 February!
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Claire Birch's Gingerbread Recipe
Why not make a Gingerbread Doddington Hall, your own home, any building you like or even person or animal? We'd love to display your creation alongside our own! Entries by 19 December please, but on display from 28 November so get baking....good luck! Here's the recipe: Ingredients:
200 ml sugar
200 ml golden syrup 100g butter 1 tbs ground cinnamon 1 tbs ground ginger 1 tsp ground cardamom 1/2 tsp ground cloves 300 ml milk 1 tbs sodium bicarbonate 900g flour Ingredients for the ‘glue’: 2 free range egg whites, 500g icing sugar.
Melt the sugar, syrup, butter and spices together in a saucepan, add the milk, then let the mixture cool. Finally add the flour and bicarbonate, having combined them first. Fold in well. Preheat your oven to 175 degrees centigrade. Roll out to around half a cm thickness, then cut out your shapes slightly larger than needed. (You should work this out first, perhaps making a paper template.) Cook your pieces in the middle of the oven for 10 - 20 minutes depending on the size of each. (They will not be totally hard when they come out of the oven but when they cool they will harden up and become quite tough. If you overcook them and they dry out too much in the oven they will be more breakable.) Unfortunately the pieces tend to change shape a little in the oven, depending on how much they were stretched out by the rolling pin before baking. After they have cooled it is quite easy to trim off the edges with a serrated knife - this makes it much easier to stick the pieces together. Before assembling the pieces it is best to decorate them with thick icing piped on as windows, roof tiles etc. You can use a strong freezer bag with a tiny hole cut out of one corner if you do not have a piping bag.
To make the ‘glue’, put the egg whites into a bowl, sift in the icing sugar and mix to create a thick paste. Pipe onto joins and hold in place until it has set. Build and decorate!
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