locale: Middlesex
2 posts in this collection
- Middlesex Gingerbread
A treacle gingerbread - similar to parkin - with added candied peel and caraway seeds. In this old receipt 'pearl-ash' is potassium carbonate, E501
- Uxbridge Cakes
Very high dried fruit content sweet rich bread cake. Glasse 1747 uses seven pounds of currants to one pound of flour, plus nutmeg and butter.