{"id":1391,"slug":"gingerbread","title":"Gingerbread","description":"This recipe produces a soft gingerbread cake, not gingerbread cookies. Gingerbread is a type of spice cake. Parkin, a variation traditionally eaten in England around Bonfire Night, is partially oat-based.","ingredients_raw":["110 g (4 oz) butter","110 g (4 oz) brown sugar","220 g (8 oz) golden syrup","220 g (8 oz) all-purpose flour","5 ml (1 level teaspoon) baking powder","5 ml (1 level teaspoon) mixed spice","10 ml (2 level teaspoon) ground ginger","2 eggs","120 ml (4 fluid oz) milk"],"ingredients_norm":["butter","brown sugar","golden syrup","all purpose flour","baking powder","mixed spice","ground ginger","egg","milk"],"steps":["Put the butter, sugar, and syrup in a saucepan. Heat gently until the butter melts.","Place the dry ingredients in a bowl. Pour the melted butter mixture into the bowl, and beat thoroughly.","Warm the milk in a saucepan (so it will dissolve the syrup).","Add the milk to the bowl, and beat thoroughly.","Beat the eggs, and then stir them in to the mixture.","Pour the mixture into an 8-inch (20 cm) greased square cake tin.","Bake at 170°C (325°F) for 1 hour.","Cool in the tin for 15 minutes, then remove.","Leave at least 1 day before cutting into squares. Serve."],"categories":["Cake recipes","Recipes for dessert","Recipes for cake","Recipes using ground ginger","Baking recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes using egg","Recipes using baking powder","Recipes using brown sugar","Recipes using all-purpose flour","Recipes using golden syrup","Recipes using cow milk"],"prep_time_minutes":20,"cook_time_minutes":60,"total_time_minutes":80,"servings":"10","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Gingerbread","source_ref":"4523436","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Gingerbread&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"94264c876b034552ceab7c05031622c731555df7411242e81644ae9c552178a6","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:03Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/gingerbread"}