GINGERBREAD MEN (LONGSTAFF)

      Title: GINGERBREAD MEN (LONGSTAFF)
  Categories: Biscuits, Low-fat
       Yield: 1 Servings
  
       2 c  Wholewheat flour
     1/4 ts Salt
       1 ts Baking powder
       1 ts Baking soda
       2 c  Natural bran
       3 ts Ground ginger, or to taste
       1 ts Mixed spice (allspice?)
       1 ts Ground cinnamon
     1/3 c  Margarine
       6 tb Gran. sugar-free sweetener
       1    Egg, beaten
       3 tb Orange juice
       1 ts Margarine to grease
  
   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.
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