Ripon Parkins for November the Fifth

Name: Ripon Parkins for November the Fifth
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: Northern Europe
Ingredients: ground ginger 1 tablespoonful.; bicarbonate of soda 1 teaspoonful; lard 2 oz.; brown sugar ¼ lb.; treacle 1 lb.; milk 2 tablespoonfuls; Medium oatmeal ¾ lb.; flour ¾ lb.; butter 2 oz.

Mr. Herbert M. Bower’s recipe.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 30

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Ingredients

Medium oatmeal ¾ lb.
flour ¾ lb.
butter

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert

Method

Rub the lard and butter into the flour.
Blend the flour, oatmeal, ginger and sugar all together.
Melt the treacle and mix that in.
Finally, dissolve the soda in the milk and add that.
Mix well, bake in a dripping tin, and cook in a slow oven.
When done cut into squares; or the parkin may be rolled out and