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Hello Fred, try these two recipes for Parkin. Remember to leave them in a tin for a couple of days to go all sticky.

Parkin: 1
Ingredients:
1 lb S.R. flour
pinch of salt
2 teaspoonfuls ground ginger
8 oz caster sugar
2 oz margarine
8 oz treacle
one egg beaten with one gill of milk.

Method:
Mix together thoroughly flour, salt, ginger and sugar.
Warm margarine and treacle and beat together.
Add to the margarine and treacle, the dry ingredients and the beaten egg and milk, alternately, a little at a time.
Mix thoroughly.
Pour into a greased, shallow dripping tin.
Cut into squares when baked.

Baking time:
One and a half hours in a moderate oven(180 C, 350 F, regulo 4).



Parkin: 2
Ingredients:
1 lb treacle
1 1/4 lbs flour
5 oz dripping or margarine
6 oz moist sugar
1/2 pint milk
2 teaspoonfuls ground ginger.

Method:
Rub the grease into the flour.
Add the sugar and slowly mix in the slightly heated treacle.
Add the ginger and milk.
Pour into a shallow tin.

Baking time:
One and a half hours in a fairly slow oven. 120 C, 250 F, regulo 1/2.