Honey and ginger cookies

This cookie smells the best when its still in the oven. It's so good it could substitute gingerbread at Christmas.

Ingredients

• 20 dkg of flour
• 10 dkg of sugar
• 10 dkg of butter
• 2 coffe-spoons of baking powder
• 3 tablespoons of honey
• a piece of ginger root
• ground cinnamon
• ground clove
• juice and zest of a quarter of a lemon

Mix the flour with the baking powder and the spices. Grate the ginger, the zest of the lemon and add it to the mixture along with the lemon juice. Crumble the butter with the mixture and when its done, add the honey and finish making the dough. Its gonna be a soft dough. Make little balls of it and press them onto the oven pan covered with baking paper. Bake it for 15 minutes, until golden, at 190 degrees Celsius. 

Corn biscuits, Italian style and curry flavoured

The basic dough (for 2-3 baking pans, depending on the size of the biscuits):

• 200 grs of corn flour
• 2 eggs
• 2-3 dkgs of of melted butter
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• bout 1 dl of milk, or the amount that sticks the pastry together
• grated hard Italian and smoked cheese, about 60 grs
• a pinch of baking powder

For the Italian seasoning:

1. a can of mashed tomatoes
2. lots of Italian seasoning or fresh basil, rosemary, thyme etc

For the curry seasoned version:

• some ground cumin
• as much madras curry seasoning as you dare to add

First mix the dry ingredients in a dish (the seasonings are also added now in both cases). Whisk the eggs, pour them into the dish and mix. Melt the butter, let it cool down a bit, then add it to the pastry. Knead it a bit, then add the milk (in the Italian version, mix the tomato juice with the milk before it) gradually, careful not to make the pastry too sticky or too dry. Now knead it thouroughly. Make little balls of it the size you want the biscuits to be, them flatten them with a fork. Bake them in pan, on baking paper, at 200° until the top of the biscuits starts to get brown.