Soft Ginger Cookies (Biscuits)

Directions

1. 1
   Preheat oven to 390 F (or 200 C).
2. 2
   In a bowl, combine flour and baking powder.
3. 3
   Cut butter into flour and mix by hand until you get coarse crumbs.
4. 4
   Mix in sugar, ginger and ground ginger.
5. 5
   In another bowl stir together milk and egg, then pour milk-egg mixture over the dough and knead until dough is smooth.
6. 6
   Put little heaps of dough by the teaspoon onto greased or paper lined cookie sheet.
7. 7
   Bake at 390 F for 10-15 minutes.
8. 8
   Let cool on a wire rack.