Gingerbread Recipe

Gingerbread

A lovely treat for any occassion...

Ingredients: 450g Plain Flour
                            1 Teaspoon Salt
                            3 Teaspoons Ground Ginger
                            3 Teaspoons Baking Powder
                            1 Teaspoon Bicarbonate Soda
                            225g Demerera Sugar
                            175g Unsalted Butter
                            175g Treacle
                            175g Golden Syrup
                            250ml Milk
                            1 Egg

Method:

1. Grease and line a 10" cake tin with greaseproof paper and preheat the oven at 170 degrees Celsius.

2. Sift the flour, salt, ginger, baking powder and bicarbonate soda into a bowl.

3. Meanwhile in a medium sized pan warm the sugar, butter, syrup and treacle until melted on a medium heat but do not allow to boil.

4. Take the pan of the heat and mix the milk and egg into the sugar/butter mix thoroughly.

5. Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and add the liquid gradually, mixing together until fully incorporated.

6. Pour the mix into the tin and bake for 1 hour an 30 minutes or until firm to the touch.

7. Cool immediately on a wire rack and portion once fully cool.