Gingerbread Nuts

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. of flour
• 1½ lbs. treacle
• ½ lb. brown sugar
• ¼ lb. butter
• ½ lb. candied peel
• 1 teaspoon of mixed spice
• 1 oz. ginger
• ½ teaspoon of carbonate of soda

Method

1. 1

   Mix the flour and soda together, add the sugar, peel, ginger, spice, and treacle.

2. 2

   Add the butter, which has been previously beaten to a cream.

3. 3

   Let the mixture stand for four hours before rolling out into nuts.

4. 4

   Cut into rounds with a cutter.

5. 5

   Bake in a quick oven for eight or ten minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 24 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "A1" cookery book (1901) by H. N. L., page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gingerbread Nuts. — 2 lbs. of flour, i| lbs. treacle, | lb. brown sugar, ^ lb. butter, f lb. candied peel, | teaspoon of mixed spice, 1 oz. ginger, ^ teaspoon of carbonate of soda. Mix the flour and soda together, add the sugar, peel, ginger, spice, and treacle. Add the butter, which has been previously beaten to a cream. Let the mixture stand for four hours before rolling out into nuts. Cut into rounds with a cutter. J3ake in a quick oven eight or ten minutes. Half this quantity will generally be found sufficient. Gingerbread Cake. — | lb. flour (partly rice flour), i lb. butter, i lb. Demerara sugar, | lb. black treacle, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon each of ground ginger, cinnamon, and carbonate of soda, i teacup of milk. Put the flour and spices into a basin, the butter, sugar, treacle, and milk into a saucepan, and when nearly, but not quite boiling, pour over the eggs (previously well beaten). Mix well, 9 130 CAKES. add to the flour and spices, and stir well together. Bake in a moderate oven. Icing. — £ lb. icing sugar, £ teaspoon of lemon juice, sufficient white of egg stiffly whisked to make into a soft dough, a little flavouring essence. When this has been spread on the cakes it must be allowed to dry very gently indeed. It may be coloured with cochineal, orange juice, chocolate, saffron, or spinach syrup. Jumbles. — i lb. flour, | lb. treacle, i teaspoon of ginger, i lb. sugar (Demerara), i lb. butter

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