Oh, hello. I’ve just found an old gingerbread recipe. I think
I might make it for Christmas. The ingredients are…
To the treacle, you need to add a quarter of an egg that’s been very well beaten.
This is quite an old fashioned recipe, so I prefer to add more sugar.
This gingerbread has quite a lot of spice, it has ginger,
allspice and mace.
And I prefer to put not quite as much cloves as the recipe says.
And the final bit of flavouring, a little coriander seeds, finely crushed, and caraway
seeds which have also been finely crushed.
Mix it all well together, and then add the melted butter.
And then add enough flour to the mix until you can work with it.
And now roll it into a ball, pat it down on the tray to make little ginger biscuits.
Once I have filled this tray I’m going to put the rest aside because Lady Braybrooke
has asked me to make some moulds. She wants to use them to decorate her Christmas tree.
For this, you really need to leave the mix at least a day.
There, now these biscuits can go into an oven for ten to fifteen minutes. A moderate oven.
I’m going to use this mould to make Lady Braybrooke a Christmas tree decoration.
I’ve laid her on a buttered baking tray and I am going to put her in a moderate oven
for about ten to fifteen minutes. I’m pleased with that.
While she was cooling, I created a hole and threaded a ribbon through it. Now she is ready
for Mrs Warwick, the housekeeper, to add to the Christmas tree.
And there you go, traditional gingerbread. Merry Christmas.