{"id":1428,"slug":"ginger-biscuits","title":"Ginger Biscuits","description":"This recipe is adapted from the public domain cookbook Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management.","ingredients_raw":["3½ cups (475 g/1.05 lb) all-purpose flour","2 sticks (250 g) unsalted butter","1 cup (225 g) caster sugar","2 tablespoons ground ginger","2 eggs","Milk as needed"],"ingredients_norm":["all purpose flour","unsalted butter","superfine sugar","ground ginger","egg","milk"],"steps":["Preheat the oven to 160 C. Grease a baking sheet.","Rub the butter and ginger into the flour in a bowl until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.","Add the eggs and mix to a soft dough, adding a little milk if necessary.","Roll out the dough to 5 mm and cut out biscuits with a plain round cutter.","Place them on the prepared baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes until golden.","Take the biscuits out of the oven and leave them to cool."],"categories":["Cookie recipes","Recipes for cookies","Recipes using ground ginger","Recipes using butter","Recipes using superfine sugar","Recipes using egg","Recipes using all-purpose flour","Recipes using cow milk"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":20,"servings":null,"yield_text":"48 biscuits","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Ginger_Biscuits","source_ref":"4523354","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Ginger_Biscuits&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"8bc832150e90207e2bd52a268edce76dfeda3a4a81f47d69438df3f2811c952d","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:03Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/ginger-biscuits"}