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Gingercake

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  • Servings: 10-12
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 45m
    • The following recipe serves 10-12 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour (plain flour)
  • 1/2 cup self-raising flour
  • 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 3 teaspoons ground ginger
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 125 grams butter
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 170 degree Celsius.

  • Step 2: Grease and line a loaf tin.

  • Step 3: Melt butter, water and honey together in a small pot or in microwave.

  • Step 4: Sift flours, bicarbonate of soda, gound ginger, nutmeg, salt and mix in brown sugar well.

  • Step 5: Mix melted ingredients with dry ingredients either with a mixer, food processor, stab blender or the old fashioned spoon or whisk (it is a thick mixture).

  • Step 6: Pour into prepared tin.

  • Step 7: Bung in the oven and cook for 45 minutes (test with skewer and if dry o'kay) if not could require up to another 15 minutes.

  • Step 8: Don't ask me why but it always takes somewhere between 45 to 60 minutes to cook and never the same twice and I've been cooking it for over 30 years

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