Thick Gingerbread

Ingredients

• ijlbs. Flour
• 1 lb. Treacle (warmed)
• Jib. brown Sugar
• Jib. Butter
• ioz. ground Ginger
• ioz. Candied Peel
• 1 good teaspoonful Carbonate of Soda, dissolved in a little lukewarm Milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour, add the sugar, ginger and peel, then add the treacle, and, last of all, the soda, mixed with enough lukewarm milk to make the mixture into a rather stiff paste.

2. 2

   Bake in a Yorkshire pudding tin lined with paper, and when partly baked glaze with the following: — Dissolve 1 dessert-spoonful of sugar in 2 of milk, and brush over the cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The King's College Hospital book of cooking recipes (1907) by King's College Hospital, page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Thick Gingerbread. ijlbs. Flour. 1 lb. Treacle (warmed). Jib. brown Sugar. Jib. Butter. ioz. ground Ginger. ioz. Candied Peel. 1 good teaspoonful Carbonate of Soda, dissolved in a little lukewarm Milk

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