A Taste of Yorkshire

On Saturday Rosie and I went to the latest York area Clandestine Cake Club meeting.  The Theme for this meeting was 'A Taste of Yorkshire' so I decided to make my Nana's Parkin Recipe (although I had a touch of collapsing cake syndrome.)

The meeting was held at Rachel's house and sponsored by Yorkshire tea,  and we had several tea loafs, a lemon cake and a Wensleydale and Apple Cake as well as my parkin.

Parkin is traditionally a very sticky heavy cake and my Grandpa didn't care for it so Nana would make this one which he preferred:

Parkin

Mix together in a bowl :

8oz plain flour
4oz sugar
1 teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger

Meanwhile melt together in a pan:
6oz butter
4oz Golden Syrup

Add to the bowl with the dry ingredients along with 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda dissolved in a cup of hot water along with a beaten egg.

Mix well and pour into a greased loaf tin.

Bake at 160 degrees centigrade for about an hour. 

This is my Grandparents in their youth, my Grandpa was always a very natty dresser!

Meanwhile I have made steady progress on the pre-stitching for the 'Along the James River' Class

 Along the James River copyright Forget Me Nots In Stitching 2012

using the kit materials