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Does anyone have an tried and trusted recipes for traditional parkin? I am looking for a nice gingery sticky one please that includes both oatmeal & treacle/black molasses.
I ask because we used to buy some wonderful parkin from the lake district from one particular shop which stocked it. they stopped stocking it due to reliability issues and I have not relocated it since.
I have tried various parkin recipes but they always seem so plain and nothing like the one we loved.
the current parkin recipe calls for 4 tsp ground ginger, 2 tsp nutmeg & 1 tsp of mixed spices but it seems to be missing something - lemon? not sure but neither of us thinks it is particularly spicy/gingery.
Ingredients:
I ask because we used to buy some wonderful parkin from the lake district from one particular shop which stocked it. they stopped stocking it due to reliability issues and I have not relocated it since.
I have tried various parkin recipes but they always seem so plain and nothing like the one we loved.
the current parkin recipe calls for 4 tsp ground ginger, 2 tsp nutmeg & 1 tsp of mixed spices but it seems to be missing something - lemon? not sure but neither of us thinks it is particularly spicy/gingery.
Ingredients:
- 8 oz/220g soft butter
- 4 oz/110g soft, dark brown sugar
- 3 oz / 55g black treacle/molasses
- 6 oz / 200g golden syrup/ corn syrup
- 6 oz medium oatmeal
- 6 oz self raising flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 4 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 2 tbsp milk