Ginger Pastries
- 200 g fresh gingerroot
- 300 g sugar
- 12 cup whole milk
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
- 1 tablespoon clarified butter (ghee)
- Wash the gingerroot.
- Scrape and slice it into small pieces.
- Grind the pieces into a fine paste with some milk for smoother grinding.
- Take a non-stick cooking pan.
- Combine the ground paste, sugar and remaining milk into it and simmer over medium to high flame.
- Stir and mix with a spatula.
- Meanwhile grease a tray or deep plate with clarified butter.
- When the mixture slightly thickens, drop a small amount of mixture in a plate.
- Check with the thumb and index finger if it can turn into a hard ball.
- Do not heat more.
- Remove the hot mixture and pour into greased plate.
- Spread evenly with the back of a spatula or flat bottomed bowl.
- To make the spreading easier, you may grease the spatula with clarified butter.
- Once the flattened mixture cools, make square pieces of desired size.
fresh gingerroot, sugar, milk, poppy seeds, butter
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/ginger-pastries-445547 (may not work)