Lottie Shaws - Yorkshire Parkin Ginger Biscuit Box 275g, 10 Seriously Good Biscuits in 100% Recyclable Box, Great Treat for Dunking in Tea and for Sharing, Authentically Yorkshire,Award Winning Taste

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Combine the flour, oatmeal, spices, sugar, salt and bicarb in a large mixing bowl, then pour in the treacle mixture, stirring to combine. Beat the egg with the milk and then beat into the batter until it’s just loose enough to pour into the tin. Sieve the flour, ginger and bicarbonate of soda into a large mixing bowl ensuring the ingredients are all well mixed in Now is the time to add the eggs and milk, but add the milk first and give it a good mix. Then gradually add the eggs and mix until well combined. Remember that the mixture may still be a little warm, you don’t want scrambled eggs.

True story. And that was one of the first ever published references to Yorkshire parkin, the crime of theft, of culinary passion, all in the name of this centuries-old cake.The tharf cake is of ancient Teutonic origin, as tharf or theorf meant 'unleavened, un-fermented, solid tough or sodden' in Old English. John Wycliffe in his translation of the Bible in 1389 (Mark Ch.14.v. 1) calls unleavened bread a " tharf loove" [a] [6] History [ edit ] There are various different recipes for parkin, it is difficult to say which is the most traditional and people have very strong opinions about how it should be made! We are a vegan family recipe blog so all our ingredient recommendations are for plant-based and vegan-friendly ingredients - such as plant-based milk, butter, and margarine - however if you have different dietary requirements you can use your usual ingredients. Although the frugal and savvy cooks during the 1940s war years of food rationing and shortages, and the 1930s Great Depression eras, already worked this one out! Jump to:

Its best to use an oatmeal that is intended for baking, and this is sometimes called 'medium oatmeal' or 'Scottish oatmeal' which is ground to a finer consistency compared to steel-cut oatmeal. Although the medium oatmeal is ground it is not exactly flour-like in texture, it is just smaller and finer compared to steel-cut oatmeal.The parkin pig, this an elusive character, often found hiding in the hedgerows of toffee, rolling in the golden syrup or snuffing its snout in the forests of ginger and perhaps no match for the gingerbread man. Traditionally parkin is associated with the month of November with the first Sunday of the month known as “Parkin Sunday.” Specifically it is a key element of Bonfire Night, or Guy Fawkes Night, where the cake is eaten as part of the festivities. However, parkin is also commonly eaten throughout the winter months.