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Gingerbread Men Recipe


This Gingerbread Men Recipe is one of many in our collection of Low Carb Recipes. these are culled from various sources, some my own. whilst some are low carb recipes, there are also some low fat recipes, whilst and diabetic recipes. The one thing they all have in common with this Gingerbread Men Recipe, is that they can all be seen as diet recipes in one form or another.




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Gingerbread Men




Ingredients:

2 cup wholewheat flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 cup natural bran
3 tsp ground ginger, or to taste
1 tsp mixed spice (allspice?)
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/3 cup margarine
6 tbsp gran. sugar-free sweetener
1 egg, beaten
3 tbsp orange juice
1 tsp margarine to grease

Instructions:

Heat oven to 350 F. Mix flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda, bran
and spices together, then rub in margarine until the mixture resembles fine
breadcrumbs.

Stir the sweetener into the egg and orange juice and beat into the flour
mixture. Knead well, and roll out thinly on floured board. Using a cutter,
cut into gingerbread men shapes (or other shapes) and place on greased
cookie sheets.

Bake for 15-20 min or until crisp and lightly browned. Cool on a wire tray
and store in an airtight container.

TOTAL RECIPE: 1690 cal, 160 g (16 units) carbohydrate, 63 g fiber,
47 g protein, 100 g fat.

Source: The Diabetics' Cookbook by Roberta Longstaff & Jim Mann 1984
Shared but not tested by Elizabeth Rodier Oct 93.




Servings: 1




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TOLKIEN, J. R. R. British (South African born) Educator