Gingerbread recipe
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oursinI found this while looking in my kitchen scrapbook for something entirely different. I haven't made it for ages, but it made a lovely dark moist gingerbread. (Sorry, the measurements are all UK style, I'm not sure how one converts them to US cups.)
Mix together
4 oz wholemeal flour
½ teaspoonful of mixed spice
½ teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
1 good teaspoonful of powdered ginger (or to personal taste)
2 oz sultanas &/or chunks of crystallised ginger
Gently melt together
2 oz/4 desertspoonsful of molasses or treacle
2 oz/4 desertspoonsful of honey (or golden syrup)
2 oz soft brown sugar, as dark as possible
2 oz butter or margarine
and then add
Eighth of an Imperial pint of milk
1 egg
Stir all together and add to the dry ingredients.
Pour into a greaseproof paper-lined baking tin. Bake in a low oven: the time I have written down is 45 minutes but my recollection is that it tends to take rather longer - until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Cool in the tin. Is best left to mature for a few days, wrapped in greaseproof paper, before eating.
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Date: 2005-12-31 06:22 pm (UTC)I don't think there's any problem with the measurements, but in case you're curious - providing that the ounces are the same on both sides of the Atlantic, 8 oz = 1 cup. (And, of course, 2 tbs = 1 oz, 3 tsp = 1 tbs, 2 cups = 16 oz = 1 US pint, 2 pints = 4 cups = 32 oz = 1 quart, 16 cups = 128 oz = 1 gallon.)
Took me long enough to learn it, I figure I may as well pass it on. For converting to metric, I'd need a computer, though.
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Date: 2005-12-31 06:28 pm (UTC)- The Imperial fluid ounce is (1/160) of an imperial gallon or 8 fluid drams, about 1.734 cubic inches or exactly 28.413 062 5 mL (as specified legally in The Units of Measurement Regulations 1995). This volume of water weighs very nearly 1 avoirdupois ounce.
- The U.S. fluid ounce is (1/128) of a U.S. fluid gallon, about 1.805 cubic inches or exactly 29.573 529 562 5 mL. This volume of water weighs about 1.04 avoirdupois ounces.
- U.S. law 21CFR101.9(b)(5)(viii) also defines a fluid ounce of exactly 30 mL, for use in nutrition labeling.
Gotta love the FDA. Pi will be 3 in 2006, I'm sure.
Oh, and also--
- 1 Imperial pint (UK) = 20 UK fluid ounces ≈ 568 mL (0.56826125 litres exactly).
- 1 pint (US, wet) = 16 US fluid ounces = 2 US cups ≈ 473 mL (0.473176473 litres exactly).
So since ounces are /not/ the same, I suppose converting to metric is our only hope of transatlantic understanding.
Now, if only we could make sure all the eggs were exactly the same size....
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Date: 2005-12-31 07:59 pm (UTC)|This FAQ may be cited as "The rec.food.cooking FAQ and conversion file| |as of , available in rtfm.mit.edu FAQ archives as /cooking/faq" ...
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