Loaf Gingerbread

Name: Loaf Gingerbread
Total time: 2 h
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: Flour 2 lb.; treacle 2 lb.; butter ½ lb.; sugar ½ lb.; ginger 1 oz.; volatile salts ½ oz.; milk 2 teaspoonfuls.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
2 hr

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Another of the receipts of Mrs. Anger, of Burnham-on-Crouch, Miss Anstey’s grandmother.

Ingredients

Flour 2 lb.
treacle 2 lb.
butter

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian
Bread

Method

Mix the flour, sugar and ginger together.
Melt the treacle and butter together, and
Use to mix the flour.
Dissolve the volatile salts in the milk.
Mix that in.
Pour into well-greased shallow tins.
Bake slowly in moderate oven.
When cooked and cold cut into squares.