I love all the thick warming soups and the slow cooked chunky meaty stews as well as all the stodgy comforting foods like root vegetable mash and roasted squash, but most of all i love the puddings, desserts, sweets and treats. Along with the treacle toffee, bonfire lollies, gingerbread and spiced carrot cake this recipe is just the taste of autumn.
It has been handed down my mums side of the family from my Great Grandma to my Grandma to my Mum and now to me and its just to scrummy for me to not share so here it is.
Ingredients
1 cup self-raising flour
1 cup oatmeal (or normal porridge oats will do, whiz in a blender if you have one to make them finer)
1 cup sugar
1.5 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp bicarb of soda
2 tbsp black treacle
4oz margarine (not butter)
1 cup of boiling milk
Method
- Put all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix them together
- Add the butter and the black treacle
- bring the milk to the boil in a saucepan
- pour the hot milk onto the rest of the ingredients
- mix well together until all the margarine has melted and all ingredients are well combined
- line a loaf tin (or a square cake tin in my case as couldn't find my loaf tin)
- pour mixture into tin (don't worry if it quite runny its supposed to be)
- put in a pre-heated over at 180 degrees for 45 mins
- remove from tin and leave on a large piece of grease proof paper to cool
- wrap the cooled Parkin in the grease proof paper and LEAVE IT ALONE
- DO NOT EAT
You can eat it straight away if you want (and i usually do) but if you leave it wrapped in the grease proof paper in an air tight tin for a week it gets even yummier and stickier. If you can resist this little package looking at you everytime you open the cupboard i promise it will be worth it.
hope you all enjoy this as much as me and my family do and hopefully you will pass this recipe on just like we have xx
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