Barnstaple Fair Gingerbread

Mrs. Maude S. Seldon writes from Braunton, N. Devon: —

‘At Barnstaple (six miles from here) where I lived all my married life there is an annual three days’ Fair, held in the middle of September with an opening ceremony in the Guild Hall, at which hospitality is freely dispensed in the shape of specially prepared spiced ale, toast soaked in the ale, cheese and the usual Fairing sweets and gingerbread. I enclose a recipe for the gingerbread, but the