Aunty Betty’s gingerbread

This family recipe ended up in my hands in a special way. I was on the train to London when Joanne came up to me to say that she loved my first book, Pride and Pudding, and that she wanted to send me her family recipe for gingerbread.

Joanne told me that she came from Cumbria in the north of England, where Grasmere gingerbread also originates, and where, historically, a lot o