Potato Gingerbread

Name: Potato Gingerbread
Ingredients: 1 level teaspoon ground ginger; 1 level teaspoon baking powder; 3 oz (75 g) peeled and grated raw potato; 5 oz (150 g) wholemeal flour; A pinch of salt; 4 tablespoons syrup, honey or treacle; 1 egg, beaten; 1 level teaspoon mixed spice; 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; 2 oz (50 g) butter or margarine; 2 oz (50 g) sultanas; 1 tablespoon chopped candied peel

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

About

This cake will keep quite well but I suggest you eat it fresh, cut into little squares.

Ingredients

3 oz (75 g) peeled and grated raw potato
5 oz (150

Cake
Christmas
Vegetarian
December

Method

Mix the flour, baking powder, ginger, spice and salt. Add the potato and dried fruit. Melt the butter or margarine and syrup and stir into the flour mixture together with the beaten egg. Add the soda dissolved in 1 tablespoon of water.

Pour into a prepared greased and lined cake tin (approx.