Eleanor's collected parkin recipes.

I've had some success with the first, but intend to try the Marguerite Patten version next, as it's the one I grew up with.

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Yorkshire Parkin

From KIDPROJ.

Ingredients

• 8 ozs self raising flour
• 4 oz butter
• 8 ozs oatmeal
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 8 oz treacle
• 2 tsps bicarbonate of soda
• 4 oz sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 pint milk
• Pinch of salt

Method

• Rub the butter into the sieved flour
• Add the rest of the dry ingredients, the treacle, milk and beaten egg.
• Mix well together.
• Put the mixture in a prepared shallow tin and cook in a slow oven for about 2 hours.
• When cool, cut into squares.

Parkin via Ann Blair

From Marguerite Patten

Ingredients

• 4 oz butter
• 4 oz black treacle (can use golden syrup or a mixture)
• 5-6 oz moist brown sugar
• 1-2 tsp ground ginger
• 1-2 tsp mixed spice
• 6 oz plain flour
• 1 level tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 6 oz medium or coarse oatmeal

Method

• Melt the butter, treacle and sugar together.
• Sieve the dry ingredients and then add the oat meal and mix.
• Stir in the treacle mix. Beat hard and put in a lined 9" round tin or an 8" square tin.
• Bake 300-325 f gas mark 2 for 1-1/2 hours.

Cooked when a skewer comes out clean. Cool in tin for 10 mins and turn out onto a wire rack. Store in an airtight tin for a few days before cutting.

Lancashire Parkin via Gid Holyoake

From: allrecipes

Ingredients

• 225g (8oz) fine or medium oatmeal
• 225g (8oz) self-raising flour
• 225g (8oz) brown sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 225g (8oz) margarine or butter
• 125g (4.5oz) black treacle
• 125g (4.5oz) golden syrup
• 1 egg, beaten

Method

• Preheat the oven to 150 to 170 C / Gas 2 to 3.
• Put oatmeal, flour, sugar, salt and ground ginger in a bowl. Rub in the fat.
• Add the treacle, golden syrup and egg.
• Mix well. This will make a heavy mixture.
• Place in a lined, small roasting tin.
• Bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

It is usually a good thing to leave in a cake tin for a week before cutting or a minimum of 2 to 3 days at least if you can't keep your hands off it.