Yorkshire Parkin Recipe

Name: Yorkshire Parkin Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 0.5 cup Butter; 0.5 cup Dark Soft Brown Sugar; 0.5 cup Molasses; 1 cups Plain Flour; 0.5 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda; 4 tsp Ground Ginger; 0.5 tsp Nutmeg; 0.25 tsp Finely Crushed Black Pepper; 1.2 cups Coarse Oatmeal; 0.25 cup Milk; 0.3 cup Chopped Mixed Peel

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TRADITIONAL BRITISH RECIPE: Yorkshire Parkin cake is essentially the Northern English form of gingerbread. This is the traditional recipe for Yorkshire Parkin, although the recipe changes from area to area.

Different parkins are characterized by where they are made, and Yorkshire Parkin is one of the most famous, made using oats.

Yorkshire Parkin is eaten on Bonfire Night, November 5th, celebrating the famous failure of Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses on Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes, for those of you that don't know, was a Yorkshireman. Today is the face of the humanitarian hacking group Anonymous.

This Parkin Recipe is easy to make and creates a lovely, moist sticky cake - though you can eat the cake almost immediately it gets stickier if you wrap and store it for several days.

The other beauty of the cake is it keeps really well in an airtight tin, can be eaten as a cake or warm as a pudding with a dollop of custard and make an interesting alternative to sponge cake in a trifle, giving it a more autumny flavour than a light summer trifle.

Skill Level:	Time: 90 Minutes
Price:	Makes: 1 Cake

Ingredients:

Conversions

Metric:

100gr Butter

( Sugar )

100gr Dark Soft Brown Sugar

175gr Molasses

( Black Treacle )

225gr Plain Flour

2gr Bicarbonate of Soda

15gr Ground Ginger

2gr Nutmeg

1gr Finely Crushed Black
Pepper

125gr Coarse Oatmeal

50ml Milk

50gr Chopped Mixed Peel
Imperial:

3.5oz Butter

( Sugar )

3.5oz Dark Soft Brown Sugar

6.aoz Molasses

( Black Treacle )

7.9oz Plain Flour

0.1oz Bicarbonate of Soda

0.5oz Ground Ginger

0.1oz Nutmeg

0.03oz Finely Crushed Black
Pepper

4.4oz Coarse Oatmeal

1.7oz Milk

1.7oz Chopped Mixed Peel
Cups:

0.5 cup Butter

( Sugar )

0.5 cup Dark Soft Brown Sugar

0.5 cup Molasses

( Black Treacle )

1 cups Plain Flour

0.5 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

4 tsp Ground Ginger

0.5 tsp Nutmeg

0.25 tsp Finely Crushed Black
Pepper

1.2 cups Coarse Oatmeal

0.25 cup Milk

0.3 cup Chopped Mixed Peel

Directions:

01 - Butter and line a 20cm / 7.8in cake tin with greaseproof paper.

02 - Preheat the oven to 160C / 320F / Gas 3.

03 - Beat Butter and Sugar together until smooth.

04 - Add Treacle to the Butter/Sugar Mixture and beat until wel combined.

05 - One by one, sift in Flour, Bicarbonate of Soda, Spices, Oatmeal and Milk and mix well.

06 - Finally add the Mixed Peel and mix just emough to incorporate the Peel.

07 - Spoon the Mixture into the tin.

08 - Bake for an hour or until a skewer comes out clean. Serve warm or cold.

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