Mulatto’s stomach

This recipe is for the sticky moist variety of gingerbread that is so delicious eaten on Guy Fawkes’ night to keep out the cold.

Spicy gingerbread has long been part of British popular culture. Dyed red with wine, made with honey and liquorice or studded with gilded cloves and fleur-de-lis made with leaves coated with harmless gold-leaf (hence the expression about putting the gilt on the gingerbread), or baked in moulds shaped like windmills or castles, farmers or queens, and