Yorkshire parkin
Serves: 6
Ingredients
- 175g butter
- 175g muscovado sugar
- 100g black treacle
- 75g golden syrup
- 175g oats
- 175g plain flour
- 5g bicarbonate of soda
- 10g ground ginger
- 5g mixed spice
- 2 eggs
- 100ml milk
Method
- Line an 18cm square cake tin and preheat oven to 140C/Gas 1.
- Put butter, sugar, treacle and syrup in a pan and heat gently until melted.
- Leave to cool a little.
- Combine the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and add the syrup mixture.
- Beat the eggs and milk then add to the mixture and combine to make a batter.
- Pour carefully into the lined tin and bake for 60-75 mins.
- Leave to cool in the tin.
- When completely cool, wrap in greaseproof paper and then foil and store in a tin for a week or two to mature.
- Serve as it is, or for a party, top it with a litle icing sugar and glacé ginger.
