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

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

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