Shirley's Gingerbread Recipe at MyDish

Shirley's Gingerbread

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Method

  • Heat oven at temperature 325F or 160C
  • Melt margarine, sugar and syrup in a saucepan.
  • Pour egg into milk.
  • Combine all ingredients together and beat well.
  • Pour into cake tin (recommend loaf tin) and bake for 45-60 minutes.

    • Tips

    • Do I have any tips? NO! Just enjoy!

    Comments Add your comment

    • Hi.. thanks for the recipe.. im deffo gonna try this.. could u please tell me what gas mark it is.... thanks

      by kittiepurrrrr on Fri Nov 13 2009   reply to this comment

    • The cake was delicious but I would add a little more ginger as my family described it as being more syrupy in flavour than ginger.

      by Merv on Sun Nov 8 2009   reply to this comment

    • I will definitely - her bakewell tart is YUMMY!
      Let me know if you bake this :)

      by Polstar on Tue Nov 3 2009   reply to this comment

    • This is great.

      Hopefully you'll share some more of these great recipes from your mum.

      by wilsondan on Sun Nov 1 2009   reply to this comment

    Ingredients

    • INGREDIENTS
    • 8oz Self-raising flour
    • 8oz Golden Syrup
    • 2oz brown sugar
    • 1 medium egg. beaten
    • 3ozs margarine or butter
    • 2 teaspoons ground ginger
    • 1/3pint Milk
    • 1 tbsp baking powder

    By Views 3389  Added Fri Oct 30 2009


    This recipe is my mum's. She used to make it for me when I was a teenager and I'd sell it at school (she didn't realise this until much later). I LOVE it.

     

    My mum is a great cook - she did it for a living and now, unfortunately she hates cooking. So she wrote out my favourite cake recipes for me one day and I have them in a little blue book which is my baking bible - when I can be bothered to bake. Read More

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