How to Cook

Preheat oven to 190’C

Melt shortening in a saucepan

Add sugar and syrup / treacle and mix well

Make sure the sugar is fully dissolved

Sift all the flour, baking soda, nutmeg, salt and ginger together in a mixing bowl.

Gradually stir in 4 cups of the dry ingredients into the melted shortening mixture.

Mix thoroughly

Cut mix onto bench top and knead in the last cup of dry ingredients by hand.

When thoroughly mixed, divide into 3 equal parts and shape each part into a ball.

Put each ball onto an ungreased cookie sheet.

Roll each ball into a rectangle ¼” thick

Press each cutter to cut out the shapes of the house

Remove excess dough and bake right on the cookie sheet

Bake in oven for 13 – 15 minutes or until lightly brown