Soft Ginger Cookies (Biscuits) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 1/8 ounces butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup ginger, candied
1/2 teaspoon ginger, ground
1/4 cup milk
1 egg

Preparation

Preheat oven to 390 F (or 200 C).
In a bowl, combine flour and baking powder.
Cut butter into flour and mix by hand until you get coarse crumbs.
Mix in sugar, ginger and ground ginger.
In another bowl stir together milk and egg, then pour milk-egg mixture over the dough and knead until dough is smooth.
Put little heaps of dough by the teaspoon onto greased or paper lined cookie sheet.
Bake at 390 F for 10-15 minutes.
Let cool on a wire rack.