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Parkin

3/11/2013

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Hot on the heels of the Guy Fawkes' Night post (see below), here a recipe for parking, a traditional ginger cake from the region we live in (Yorkshire):

Ingredients
250g self-raising flour 
115g muscovado sugar
1 1/2 tsp ground ginger 
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
a pinch of salt 
115g golden syrup
55g butter
200 ml milk
1 free-range egg 

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/Gas Mark 2. Grease and/or line a square 20cm/8in cake tin. 
2. Mix dry ingredients in a bowl.
3. Add butter and golden syrup to a small saucepan and heat until the butter
has melted.
4. Pour the butter and syrup into the flour and mix, then add
milk and egg and mix until smooth. Pour into the greased and lined tin.
5. Bake in the oven for approximately one hour - check with a skewer to see if it is ready.

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