Granny’s Gingerbread

Name: Granny’s Gingerbread
Ingredients: A good pinch of Salt; 4 teaspoons ground ginger; ¼ pint milk; 2 eggs; 1lb wholemeal flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 4oz dark soft brown sugar; 1lb wholemeal flour; 1lb black treacle; 6oz butter

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Farmhouse Kitchen

By Mary Norwak

Published 1991

About

Ingredients

1lb black treacle
6oz butter
4oz

Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Melt butter in a saucepan with the sugar and treacle, but do not allow the mixture to get too hot. Mix the flour, baking powder, ginger and salt together in a basin. Beat the eggs and milk lightly together. Beat in all the other ingredients. Pour into two greased lib-loaf tins. Bake for one hour at 350°F, 180°C, gas mark 4. This gingerbread keeps for weeks in an airtight tin.