Alison Niven

Gingerbread

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Gloagburn: Recipes from a Scottish Farm
Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

  • About

A classic, old-school, sticky gingerbread, delicious sliced and spread – thickly – with butter (according to my granddaughter Maisie, aged 2½).

Ingredients

  • 130 g sugar
  • 75 g butter
  • 70 g

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 160°C/140°C fan/gas mark 3.
  2. Put the sugar, butter, treacle, golden syrup and milk in a pot over a medium heat until the butter has melted, stirring occasionally. Don’t let it boil, and take the pot off the heat once you have a homog

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