Gingerbread

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    Loaf
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook

By Jennie Shapter

Published 2010

  • About

This tea-time favourite can be baked easily in your bread machine. Store it in an airtight tin for a couple of days to allow the moist sticky texture to develop.

Ingredients

Small

  • 175 g/6 oz/ cups plain (all-purpose) flour
  • 3.5

Method

  1. Remove the kneading blade from the bread pan, if it is detachable, then line the base of the pan with baking parchment. Sift the flour, ginger, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and mixed spice together into a large bowl.

  2. Melt the sugar, butter, syrup and treacle in a pan over a low heat.