Good Gingerbread

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

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 45

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Ingredients

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

Cake
Vegetarian

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