I have been making this gingerbread for years & years telling everyone it is an old family recipe, but that might be a fib....I totally tweaked it out of a Margaret Fulton Cookbook. God bless St Margaret of the kitchen.
This recipe is easy peasy, & is easy to double, in fact the instructions that follow are a doubled recipe, so feel free to halve. The gingerbread is moist & dense, & will keep for a week or so. It's great to take to Christmas bbqs, the office, etc, & is nice to give as a gift as well. This was gingerbread batch number 6 for the 2010 Yuletide Season. I'm almost sick of it, for this year. No, another fib. I'm totally eating some right now, warmed & served with some vanilla icecream. Nom nom nom.
In a large saucepan, gently heat 250g of butter, half a cup of molasses, 4 tablespoons of golden syrup, & 2 thirds of a cup of tightly packed soft brown sugar. If you can't find molasses you can use treacle instead. If you are in the USA & can't access golden syrup, then I feel sorry for you substitute corn syrup.
Stir really well, & let cool for a little while.
Mix in 2 cups of milk, & then 4 large eggs.
Yes that is a lot of milk, but this is a double recipe & you don't want your gingerbread to be dry.
That would be gross. You want it to be moist. Trust me on this.
Use electric beaters to really really mix well,
because you don't want any cooked egg in your finished gingerbread.
Eeewwwww!
Sift 4 cups of plain flour, 4 teaspoons of cinnamon, 4 teaspoons of ground ginger, about a teaspoon of ground nutmeg & some ground cloves, & 2 teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda.
Dump this right into the saucepan & stir well.
Stop stirring manually as you will break your arm. Use electric mixer to ensure that all the flour is combined properly, as you don't want lumps of dried flour in your gingerbread. Seriously.
This is such a cautionary recipe, you can tell I have made all the mistakes for you!
Pour into a lined baking dish, & cook in a medium oven for up to 2 hours, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Because this is a double recipe I am using a baking dish, a regular sized cake tin is fine for a single recipe.
When cool, cut into slices & enjoy! This tin was going to the park to offer the other mums
& kids at a play date, & there was plenty left over to offer visitors.
Or enjoy alone. Whatever...
Mrs BC
xx
