Gingerbread Loaf

Ingredients

• One pound and a half of treacle
• One pound and a half of flour
• Half a pound of butter
• One ounce of ground ginger
• Three eggs
• One teaspoonful of carbonate of soda
• Two ounces of candied orange and lemon peel

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour and carbonate of soda into a basin, add the ground ginger, rub in the butter, and add the chopped peel.

2. 2

   Beat up the eggs, and add the treacle.

3. 3

   Mix these with the dry ingredients.

4. 4

   Put the mixture into a cake tin, lined with buttered paper, and bake in a moderately slow oven for two and a half hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ocklye cookery book (1909) by Eleanor L. Jenkinson, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

QINQERBREAD LOAF Ingredients One pound and a half of treacle. Two ounces of candied orange One pound and a half of flour. and lemon peel. Half a pound of butter. One teaspoonful of carbonate of One ounce of ground ginger. soda. Three eggs. Sift the flour and carbonate of soda into a basin, add the ground ging-er, rub in the butter, and add the chopped peel. Beat up the eggs, and add the treacle. Mix these with the dry ingredients. Put the mixture into a cake tin, lined with buttered paper, and bake in a moderately slow oven for two and a half hours. SOFT GINGER CAKE Ingredients One breakfastcupful of butter. Three breakfastcupfuls of flour. One breakfastcupful of brown One tablespoonful of ground sugar. ginger. One breakfastcupful of golden One teaspoonful of mixed spice. syrup or treacle. One teaspoonful of carbonate of On

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