Bonfire Night Parkin. For food writer Carol Wilson, Bonfire Night is all about the parkin. Discover how this popular gingerbread cake became a seasonal tradition and try our perfect parkin recipes. For my family, Bonfire Night isn't complete without a slice or two of sticky parkin.
You can cook Bonfire Night Parkin using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Bonfire Night Parkin
- Prepare 225 g of self raising flour.
- It’s 110 g of caster sugar.
- You need 1 tsp of ground ginger (you can add more, if you like).
- Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
- It’s 1 of egg.
- Prepare 200 ml of milk.
- It’s 55 g of butter.
- It’s 110 g of golden syrup.
This recipe is an egg free parkin, and I was always told that Parkin should NEVER contain eggs in it, whether that is true or not, I'm not sure! Try to plan ahead when you make this recipe, it is MUCH. In Yorkshire, Parkin is as much a part of Bonfire Night as sparklers, toffee apples and hoping that the rain stays away. It's a real warm, cosy scarf of a cake, deliciously sticky and with a fiery ginger kick.
Bonfire Night Parkin step by step
Preheat the oven to 150 Celsius. Line a 22cm/8 inch deep tray..
Sift together the flour, sugar, ginger, and baking soda..
In a small pan, melt together the butter and syrup..
Beat the egg into the milk..
Gradullay pour the syrup/butter into the dry ingredients. The mixture should look a little like dough..
Pour in the egg and milk. Stir until smooth, and pour into lined tin..
Bake for an hour, or until inserted skewer comes out clean..
The traditional cake eaten on bonfire night is Parkin Cake, a sticky cake containing a mix of oatmeal, ginger, treacle and syrup. Other foods include sausages cooked over the flames and marshmallows. If you are from Lancashire or Yorkshire, you will either regularly enjoy parkin every autumn around Bonfire Night or will remember the hours you used to spend standing around your local community. So pop it in a cake tin up to three days ahead of Bonfire Night and it'll keep deliciously well..bonfire night recipe, so I decided to take the Yorkshire parkin cake that is tradionally eaten on a Yorkshire parkin cake is made with black treacle, golden syrup, ginger and oats so I added that to a. Another fabulous traditional Bonfire night food is the Yorkshire Parkin is a cake traditionally made of. (Redirected from Bonfire night).
