Gingerbread

Name: Gingerbread
Yield: Serves 10-12.
Ingredients: 375 g plain flour; 250 g each butter, dark brown sugar and black treacle; 1 tbsp ground ginger; 1 egg, beaten; 300 ml milk; 1 tsp each ground mixed spice and nutmeg; 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Preparation info

Serves
10-12
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cooking Techniques

By Jeni Wright , Eric Treuille and Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1996

About

Ingredients

250 g each butter, dark brown sugar and black treacle
375 g plain flour

Vegetarian
Bread

Method

Grease and line a 23-cm square cake tin. Melt butter, sugar and treacle. Cool slightly. Sift dry ingredients into a bowl, add egg, milk and melted mixture and beat well. Pour into prepared tin.