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Cornish Fairing

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, cornish, easy, recipes for cookies, recipes for dessert, recipes using baking powder, recipes using butter, recipes using ground cinnamon, recipes using superfine sugar, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ACornish_Fairing)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ACornish%20Fairing&oldid=4516871

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 110 g (½ cup or 4 oz) flour
  • 60 g (¼ cup or 2 oz) butter or margarine
  • 60 g (¼ cup or 2 oz) caster sugar
  • 1 tsp (levelled, not heaped) baking powder
  • 2 tsp golden syrup
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F or Gas Mark 4).
  2. Sift the flour into a mixing bowl, then rub in the butter.
  3. Sift in the caster sugar, baking powder, and spices, then mix well.
  4. Add the syrup to the mixture, then stir in until it becomes a dough.
  5. Roll the dough out into little balls about the size of walnuts.
  6. Place the balls on a baking tray, then bake for 15 minutes.
  7. Allow the fairings to cool for a few minutes on the cooling rack before serving.

Equipment

1 sieve, 1 mixing bowl, 1 wooden spoon, 1 baking tray, 1 rolling pin, 1 cooling rack