Gingerbread Recipe

Here is the gingerbread recipe I used in my fabulously yummy gingerbread! It came from "Maw Broon's But an' Ben Cookbook" which OMG is amazing! Beautifully Scottish and amazingly comical. *lol*

Gingerbread

Ingredients:

• 1 lb self-raising flour
• 1 teaspoon mixed spice
• 2 teaspoons dried ginger
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 4 ozs brown sugar
• 1 cup golden syrup
• 6 ozs butter
• 2 ozs crystallised ginger, finely chopped
• 4 ozs sultanas
• 2 eggs, separated
• 1 cup buttermilk

Method:

1. Sieve the flour and spices into a bowl.
2. Melt the butter and syrup.
3. Separate the eggs. Beat the yolks with the sugar and add to the milk.
4. Add the melted butter and syrup.
5. Pour into the flour and mix well.
6. Add the crystallised ginger and sultanas.
7. Beat the egg whites till firm and fold into mixture.
8. Pour into a greased 12-inch yorkshire tin (or two loaf tins as I did) and bake at 350*F for about 45 minutes.
9. Test with a skewer. Cool on a rack and cut.

Little Baker Girl

*dancing around the kitchen* I baked! I baked! I baked!

I seem to be going through this really strange phase at the moment whereby I appear to be enjoying mixing a bunch of ingredients together and producing something extremely sweet and unhealthily fabulous! *lol* It should probably be noted that although I have a degree which incorporated a huge amount of cooking etc, I'm rubbish in the kitchen. I usually use it purely for making coffee (I could rival Starbucks!) and making bowls of cereal. I'm such a non-cook that I actually didn't own a rolling pin or cookie cutters until last weekend when I decided to bake gingerbread men and oatmeal & coconut cookies. Then last week when I was off that random day I baked two loaves of gingerbread and a tray of Scottish vanilla tablet. It should be noted that I used the wrong type of butter in the tablet so it never set. But ho hum, the gingerbread was fab!! *yay*