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Parkin
From A year's cookery, 1880
Serves 6
This Parkin improves with keeping for three or four weeks.
Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 300. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Parkin is made for the Fifth of November, “Bon-ifire Night.” Very good Parkin may be made as follows : — Mix half an ounce of ginger and half a pound of sugar with four pounds of fine oatmeal • rub a pound of butter into this and add about two ounces of candied lemon finely chopped. Warm some treacle in a jar and stir this into the oatmeal to make a stiff paste. Put the preparation into greased patty pans and bake in a very slow oven. If liked, a little milk can be mixed with the warmed treacle. Keep the cakes in a tin box
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