Gingernuts

• 100g butter
• 1 Tablespoon golden syrup
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons ginger (depending on how gingery you like it)
• 1/2 cup crystallised ginger chopped finely
• 1 egg
• 1 level teaspoon baking/bread soda
• 1 3/4 cups flour

Melt butter and golden syrup. Add sugar, ginger and egg, beat with a fork until well mixed. Add baking soda then unsifted flour. Mix to make a dough. Roll into balls and bake at 180 C for 10 minutes until golden brown. No need to flatten them- they do it themselves.

Source: Newspaper