Parkin Cakes

Ingredients

• 1½ pounds of flour
• ½ pound butter
• 1½ pounds fine oatmeal
• 2 pounds brown sugar
• 2 ounces of powdered ginger
• 1 pint molasses
• 3 teaspoonfuls of carbonate of soda
• 2 ounces butter
• a teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, butter, oatmeal, brown sugar, ginger, molasses, carbonate of soda, and additional butter.

2. 2

   Let stand for 1 hour, roll into thin cakes, and bake in a slow oven for at least 1 hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from With a saucepan over the sea (1902) by Adelaide Keen, page 54. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PARKIN CAKES. (England.) These are eaten on Guy Fawkes* Day. Mix i ^ pounds of flour, ^ pound butter, ij4 pounds fine oatmeal, 2 pounds brown sugar, 2 ounces of pow- dered ginger, i pint molasses, 3 teaspoonfuls of carbonate of soda, and 2 ounces butter, and a tea- spoonful of vanilla or lemo

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