- 2 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves or nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup treacle or golden syrup
- 1/3 cup hot water
- 2 eggs
Method:
Sift all dry ingredients. Cream butter and sugar. Add treacle and beat well.
Beat eggs and to them add hot water, then add to butter etc. Stir in flour gradually. Beat well.
Pour in greased and lined tin and bake in moderate oven till firm, from 30-40 minutes.
(Add sliced preserved ginger to mixture, if you like, after flour has been mixed in)
