Florence White

Gingerbread Cake

Mrs. Macpherson-Grant

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Complex

    • Ready in

      2 hr 30

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By Florence White

Published 1932

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Ingredients

  • Flour 1½ lb.
  • treacle (golden syrup) 1 lb.
  • butter or lar

Method

  1. Sieve the flour and ground ginger together into a basin.
  2. Shred the peel finely and add the flour.
  3. Put the butter, treacle and sugar into a stewpan to dissolve.
  4. Beat the eggs in a small basin.
  5. Mix the flour and ginger with the treacle, butter and sugar.
  6. Put the bicarbonate of soda into another small basin