Edinburgh Gingerbread

Name: Edinburgh Gingerbread
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: bicarbonate of soda; sugar; salt; powdered cinnamon; mixed spice; walnuts; black treacle; ground ginger; flour; dates; ground cloves; butter; milk; eggs

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Scots Kitchen

By F. Marian McNeill

Published 2015

About

Traditional Recipe

Ingredients

flour
butter
sugar
salt
bicarbonate of soda
ground ginger

Europe
United Kingdom
Scotland
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Sift a pound of flour with a quarter teaspoonful of salt, a good teaspoonful apiece of ground ginger, cinnamon, and mixed spice, and half a teaspoonful of ground cloves. Chop eight ounces of dates and