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![]() Soft, soda-raised wheatflour cake made with egg and treacle (or golden syrup) and ginger. According to one tradition the receipt came from a French prisoner of the Napoleonic wars who made his home in Ashbourne. His descendants still produce the product from the mock Tudor ‘Gingerbread House’ on St. Johns Street. ![]() Ashbourne Gingerbread Image: Alex Bray… ![]() The Ashbourne Gingerbread Shop Image: Mick Lobb ![]() 9 oz self-raising flour 2 tsp ground ginger 1 tbsp golden syrup 4 oz butter pinch of salt 4 oz brown sugar 1. Preheat oven to 350F/gas 4. 2. Sieve flour, salt and ginger together. 3. Cream the syrup, butter and sugar together then stir in the dry ingredients. 4. Knead the mixture onto a floured surface to a smooth dough. 5. Roll out and cut into shape required. ![]() Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial & General Advertiser – Saturday 21 July 1860 See: Gingerbread ![]() |
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