Gingerbread

[Malcolm Robinson]

How do I make and bake Gingerbread please???????

[Maggie/915]

Try this recipe

[Canny lass]

OR if you want the black sticky type try this:

 

8 oz plain flour

2 oz sugar

1 tsp mixed spice

1 level tsp bicarbonate of soda

1-2 tsp ground ginger

4 oz lard or butter

6 oz black treacle

2 oz golden syrup

1/4 pint of milk

1 egg

 

 Set the oven to 300-325f,150-170c or gas mark 2.

Grease and line a 7" Square cake tin.

 

Sieve the dry ingredients into a bowl. Put the lard/butter, black treacle and syrup into a saucepan and heat until the fat melts. Cool slightly and add to the dry ingredients. Warm the milk in the same saucepan. Pour over the ingredients in the bowl and beat thoroughly. Lastly, beat in the egg. Pour into the tin and bake in the middle of the oven 1½ hours but test after an hour. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes. Turn out onto a rack and allow to cool - preferably under the up turned tin. The longer you can keep it in an airtight container Before eating the stickier and better it gets. I keep mine a couple of Days Before cutting.

 

Let's know how you get on!