Name: Good Gingerbread
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Ingredients: 2–4 oz. crystallized ginger; 1–2 level teasp. mixed spice; 1 level teasp. bicarbonate of soda; 2 level teasp. ground ginger; 2 oz. dates or raisins, or sultanas; 4 oz. butter or margarine; 1–2 level teasp. ground cinnamon; 4 oz. sugar; 2 eggs; 4 oz. treacle; 8 oz. plain flour; ⅛ teasp. salt; a little warm milk, if required; 2 oz. blanched and chopped almonds

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 45

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1861

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Ingredients

8 oz. plain flour
⅛ teasp. salt
1–2 level teasp.</

Method

Grease a 7-in. tin and line the bottom with greased greaseproof paper.

Mix flour and salt and other dry ingredients with prepared fruit, crystallized ginger—cut into pieces, and almonds—chopped roughly. Melt fat, sugar and treacle, add to dry ingredients with beaten eggs. If the mixture seems s

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