Name: Gingerbread & Black Treacle Parkin
Yield: Makes 9 Large or 16 Small Squares
Ingredients: 85 g oatmeal (or just use regular porridge oats, which have been blitzed to a fine powder); 180 g butter; 70 g soft light brown sugar; 100 g black treacle; 150 g golden syrup; 1 tsp baking powder; 2 tbsp ground ginger; 1 egg; 220 g self-raising flour; 3 tbsp whole milk or buttermilk

Preparation info

Makes
9
Large

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake

By Lorraine Pascale

Published 2017

About

I’ve kept a couple of my old Home Economics books from school, and still use them to this day. The majority of British pudding recipes in the books are tempting but heavy, dense and full of dried fruit. One classic Northern English pudding is parkin: a rich dense gingerbread cake made with treacle and oats. It’s highly satisfying in all the right ways.