Edinburgh Gingerbread

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

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
Vegetarian
Cookies
Scotland

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