Parkin Recipe Recipe | Food

A traditional Yorkshire recipe for a Bonfire Night treat. This yummy ginger cake recipe will get you fired up

1. Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/Gas 2.

2. Line a 22cm/8in tin.

3. Sieve the flour, sugar, ginger and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl.

4. In a small pan gently heat the butter and syrup until melted.

5. Beat the egg into the milk.

6. Gradually pour the butter and syrup into the flour and stir. The mixture will be thick.

7. Pour in the egg and milk and stir until smooth and pour into the lined tin.

8. Bake for 1 hour.

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This is ginger cake, NOT parkin. Parkin has oatmeal and treacle. Nothing like authentic Yorkshire parkin.

Posted by paulus on 07/11/2009 15:12:45

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polsy's remarks are offensive. Parkin is most certainly not lancastrian!

Posted by guidoyorkie on 05/11/2009 16:43:58

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To me this is the real deal. Parkin at its very best. This is the exact recipe and method my Mum, who's family were all from Yorkshire...Wakefield to be exact. her 8 sister used the same recipe, not only for bonfire night but throughout the winter..I make it here in Canada and let it sit for several days before i cut into it.

Posted by Margaret Hoyle on 10/10/2009 19:11:09

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Parkin is made with treacle, not golden syrup (hence the bonfire connection) and has oats or at the very least oatmeal in it. This recipe is just ginger cake. Not remotely like the real thing.

Posted by Tracey Boylan on 05/05/2009 18:23:39

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This is not a recipe for parkin - paqrkin has rolled oats and treacle in it also; and is definitely a lancashire dessert for bonfire night.

Posted by polsy on 27/11/2008 21:07:43

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