Sponge Parkin or Gingerbread

Name: Sponge Parkin or Gingerbread
Total time: 1 h
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: fine oatmeal ½ lb.; Plain flour ½ lb.; brown sugar (demerara or raw) ¼ lb.; black treacle ½ lb.; brown sugar (demerara or raw) ¼ lb.; brown sugar (demerara or raw) ¼ lb.; butter and lard mixed ¼ lb.; butter and lard mixed ¼ lb.; powdered ginger 1 teaspoon; mixed spice 1 teaspoon; bicarbonate of soda, 1 teaspoon; nutmeg, just a grating; milk ½ teacupful.

Mrs. Millington, Preston

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Ingredients

Plain flour ½ lb.
fine oatmeal ½ lb.
black treacle

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Rub the butter and lard into the flour.
Stir in oatmeal.
Add the other dry ingredients.
Then the syrup (slightly warmed).
Slightly warm the milk and dissolve the soda in it.
Stir it into the mixture.
A beaten egg may be added (the mixture must be quite light and fairly moist, so it is safer to u