Sticky Gingerbread and Parkin

I original got this recipe passed down to me by my mother in 1975 and decided in 2021 to try to get a lower carbohydrate and healthier Sticky Gingerbread and Parkin made for a cycle ride so I was able to have a cake while the rest of them had cakes and pies, and for me to still keep good control of my Diabetes.

I changed the Ingredients to do this and hope you enjoy it as much as I do to have a cake treat on a C.T.C Cycle Ride.

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                      1967 Original Sticky Gingerbread and Parkin

Items Needed

• Large Mixing Bowl       
• Sieve                                                                                                
• Oven Gloves                          

                                                    

• Weighing Scales            
• Small saucepan                   
•  7 in - 2lb - Square Loaf Tin     
• Teaspoon       

• Grease paper     
• Whisk                 

 

Serves 8 • vegetarian •  • prep: 15 minutes • cooking Time: 1¼ – 1½ Hours
Each portion serves roughly: 16.875g

 

Ingredients

• 4 oz. or 116g  - Butter or Margarine or Lard
• 6 oz. or 150g -  Agave Nectar
• ¼ Pint Alpro Soya Milk or 4Fl oz
• 2oz (Dark Treacle) 
• 2 Eggs or 3 small Eggs
• 2 oz. or 57g Natural Erythritol - brown sugar or Swerve - Sugar Replacement, Brown

 

Dried Ingredients

• 1 Level teaspoon mixed Spice
• 1 Level Baking Powder

• 1 to 2 teaspoons of Ground Ginger
• 1 teaspoon Bicarbonate of Soda
• 8 oz or 227g Ground Almond Flour or Chandra whole foods Almond Flour

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  To Vary Recipe

  There is also a Yorkshire way too by adding 3oz lard instead of 4oz butter and adding 4oz medium oatmeal or rolled oats and ¼ level tsp salt in place of 8oz flour.
  To make it stiffer 1 egg and 5 tablespoons of milk
  
  

  
  Method

• Warm Margarine or Butter, Dark Treacle, Natural Erythritol  or Swerve or Sugar Replacement, Brown, Agave Nectar in a small saucepan (you can do it in the microwave for 10 sec)
  do not burn Margarine cook slowly. Add milk after it melted and allow it to cool right down.

• Put all Dried ingredients into a bowl.  Mixed spiced, Ground Ginger, Bicarbonate of Soda, Baking Powder, and sift the plain flour.

• Now add to the Treacle mixture with the eggs (eggs need to be whisked) into the flour

• Pour into Loaf Tin

• Bake for 1¼ to 1½ hours 

• Gas Mark 2 

• Electric 300f - 325f or 150c - 162c
• Oven position Centre
  
  
  

  Each serving: 16.875g if Divided into 8 portions

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