Parkin Recipe
- 225g/8oz self-raising flour
- 115g/4oz soft brown sugar
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- pinch salt
- 55g/2oz butter
- 115g/4oz golden syrup
- 1 free-range egg
- 200ml/7fl oz milk
- Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/Gas 2. Line a 20cm/8in cake tin.
- Sieve the flour into a large bowl and add the sugar, ginger, bicarbonate of soda and salt.
- Place the butter and golden syrup in a pan and heat until the butter has melted.
- Put the egg and milk into a jug and beat together.
- Gradually pour the butter and syrup into the flour and stir, then add the egg and milk mixture and stir until smooth. Pour into the lined tin.
- Bake in the oven for one hour or until a skewer comes out clean when pieced in the centre of the parkin.
