This is the third of our Saturday recipes.
Yorkshire Parkin
1 ½ lbs medium oatmeal
¾ lb flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon ground ginger
2lbs treacle
½ lb butter and dripping
1 small teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
¼ pint milk
Mix all the dry ingredients together. Warm the treacle and dripping together and dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the slightly warm milk and mix all well together. Grease a large pudding tin or two smaller ones and bake in a moderate oven for about ¾ hour or until it becomes just firm to the touch.
From Mrs A Cooper, Harrogate
Read Saturday Recipe No 2 (pheasant in cider).
Read Saturday Recipe No 1 (a relish, a sauce and a chutney).