Cornish Fairings

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Cornish Fairings are a traditional sweet and spicy ginger biscuit from Cornwall. Perfect for dunking in your cup of tea!

Cornish Fairings on cooling rack

These traditional Cornish Fairings are the perfect biscuit for dunking in your cup of tea.

Lightly spiced, gingery biscuits that are crisp on the outside and meltingly chewy on the inside. This recipe is an adaption of one my grandmother used to make.

step by step Cornish fairings


WHY ARE THEY CALLED CORNISH FAIRINGS?


Popular in Cornwall for well over a century, Cornish Fairings were commonly bought by men at Whitsuntide fairs to be enjoyed with their sweethearts.

They became popular nationwide when a local Cornish manufacturer Furniss started selling them by mail order in 1886. They still make and sell them today!

Stack of Cornish Fairings

WHAT ARE THEY FLAVOURED WITH?


These sweet and spicy ginger biscuits made with flour, butter and caster sugar, together with dried ginger, mixed spice and golden syrup. They sometimes also contain cinnamon.

The biscuits are created by mixing the dry ingredients with the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs, then adding the sugar and syrup before forming the dough into biscuits.

Baked cookies

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The dough is quite dry in order to create that crispness but you need to add enough golden syrup to form a dough.

Cornish Fairings Biscuit Dough

Walnut sized pieces can be then rolled into balls and placed on a baking sheet ready for baking in the oven.

Unbaked cookie dough on baking sheet

CAN YOU FREEZE THEM?


The biscuits can be frozen although you will lose the crispness slightly. The taste is still amazing though.

Cornish Fairings


NUTRITION INFORMATION




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HOW TO MAKE CORNISH FAIRINGS
easy bake cornish fairings


Cornish Fairings
Biscuits, Cookies
Baking
Yield: 24
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Cornish Fairings

Cornish Fairings

Prep time: 10 MCook time: 10 MTotal time: 20 M
A traditional spiced ginger biscuit from Cornwall

Ingredients:

  • 225g Plain Flour
  • 2 TSP Baking Powder
  • 2 TSP Bicarbonate of Soda
  • 3 TSP Ground Ginger
  • 2 TSP Mixed Spice
  • 120g Butter, cubed
  • 120g Caster Sugar, cubed
  • 6 heaped TBSP Golden Syrup

Instructions:

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°c (160°fan) and line two baking sheets with baking paper.
  2. Sieve the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, ginger and mixed spice into a large bowl.
  3. Rub in the cubed butter using your hand until you get fine breadcrumbs.
  4. Stir in the caster sugar and give it a good mix with a spoon.
  5. Finally, stir in the golden syrup and mix in with your hands until a dough forms. The dough needs to come together but not be too soft.
  6. Take walnut size pieces of the dough and roll them into balls and place on the baking sheets, spaced well apart.
  7. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Let  them cool slightly before removing to a cooling rack.

Notes:

Calories and nutrition are for 1 biscuit
Calories
84.36
Fat (grams)
4.16
Sat. Fat (grams)
2.59
Carbs (grams)
10.95
Fiber (grams)
0.29
Net carbs
10.66
Sugar (grams)
2.18
Protein (grams)
1.03
Sodium (milligrams)
76.09
Cholesterol (grams)
10.75
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1 comment

  1. Ohioren Endurance31 January 2020 at 08:57

    My friend always got me these from UK but now that I have the recipe, it's time to give her a surprise.

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