Grasmere gingerbread

Name: Grasmere gingerbread
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 tsp ground ginger; ¼ tsp ground nutmeg; butter, for greasing; flour, for dusting; ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); pinch of sea salt; 115 g (4 oz) butter, at room temperature; 115 g (4 oz) soft brown sugar; 225 g (8 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

Grasmere is a small picturesque village in the hilly landscape of the Lake District in the north of England. Its surroundings are poetic, so it is not surprising that the poet William Wordsworth took up residence here to write. His sister, Dorothy, wrote in her diary in 1803 that she was going to buy gingerbread for her brother in Grasmere.

Fifty years later in 1854, Sarah Nelson started baking her version of Grasmere gingerbread, which she sold fro