1 ounce butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/4 teaspoon vanilla essence
4 ounces self-rising flour
Serving Size : 30
Put the fat and syrup into a heavy saucepan and warm until the fat has melted. Remove from the heat and mix in the bicarbonate of soda and vanilla essence, then beat in the flour. Cool.
Roll out the mixture until wafer thin and cut into shapes with biscuit cutters. Place on greased baking sheets and bake in a cool(300F) oven for 40 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.
NOTE: This recipe was broadcast over BBC radio in the early months of the war and was recommended by Mrs. Nevill Chamberlain (then the PM’s wife) as a good sugar saver.