Gingerbread

Name: Gingerbread
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons warm water; 6 oz butter – softened, plus more for greasing; 3 fl oz medium sherry; juice and zest of 2 large oranges; 6 fl oz black treacle; 4 eggs (size 2) – well beaten; 2 heaped tablespoons ground ginger; 1 lb plain flour; 6 fl oz milk – warmed; 6 oz muscovado sugar; 3 teaspoons ground nutmeg; 2 teaspoons cream of tartar; 6 fl oz golden syrup; 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda; 8 oz preserved stem ginger – drained and roughly chopped; 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Independent Cook

By Jeremy Round

Published 1988

About

Ingredients

6 oz butter – softened, plus more for greasing
6 oz muscovado sugar
3

Dessert
Vegetarian
December

Method

Beat butter and sugar together until thick and fluffy. Mix in treacle, syrup, milk and sherry. Sift flour with cream of tartar, ground ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Mix alternate spoonfuls of flour mixture and egg into creamed ingredients. Add orange juice and zest plus chopped stem giner. Dissolve bicarb in warm water and blend into the mixture.

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