Parkin Recipe

Recipe for Parkin

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One and 3/4 pounds of flour, one-half pound of oatmeal, four ounces of butter, two pounds of molasses, one teacupful of milk, six teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, one dessert-spoonful of ground ginger. Mix the dry ingredients well together, warm the molasses with milk (do not make it hot), and mix the whole. Bake in a well-buttered tin, for one hour. Cut into squares before taking out of the tin. It should be one and 1/2 inches thick.

FROM: The American Pure Food Cook Book and Household Economist (The Marguerite Series, No. 141, Feb. 1899, Subscription Price $ 6.00/year) © 1898, Geo. M. Hill Co., Publisher, Chicago, Il.