"You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
"Yes."
Professor McGonagall sat down behind her desk, frowning at Harry. Then she said: "Have a biscuit,Potter."
"Have - what?"
"Have a biscuit", she repeated impatiently, indicating a tartan tin lying on top of one of the piles of papers on her desk. "And sit down"
There had been a previous occasion when Harry, expecting to be caned by Professor McGonagall, had instead been appointed by her to the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He sank into a chair opposite her and helped himself to a Ginger Newt, feeling just as confused and wrong-footed as he had done on that occasion.
(Harry Potter OOTP,page 275)
So here is a recipe for Minerva McGonagalls favourite cookies, Ginger Newts.
250 g flour
½ TL salt
1 TL cinnamon
½ TL clove powder
2 TL ginger powder
3 TL baking powder
90 g vegetable fat
60 g butter
200 g sugar
1 egg
60 ml syrup
1 handful of crystallized ginger
sugar to roll the dough in
preparation:
oven at 180°C
Cut the crystallized ginger into small cubes.
Mix flour, baking powder and the spices in one bowl.
Mix butter, vegetable fat and sugar in a second bowl and add syrup and egg.
Now add the flour-mixture and a handful of crystallized ginger-cubes to the second bowl and make a dough.
Make balls from the dough(ca. 2 cm), roll them in sugar and put them on a baking sheet.
Now bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes.
note:
The dough is quite gluey, so I would recommend putting it in the fridge for at least half an hour before forming the balls.
another note:
TL= teaspoon....sorry, my translation is horrible
but I wanted to share this recipe with you!
Now you have Ginger Newts...well done, 20 points to Gryffindor!
all you need now to make it REALLY Minerva is a tartan cookie jar :-)
And then you can say: "Have a biscuit, Potter!"
