St giles faire gingerbread

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
3 Eggs
1 cup Honey
½ cup Shortening (suet, marg, whatever)
½ teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon Ground nutmeg
1 (to your taste) Tbsp ground ginger (up to 3)
1 tablespoon Mango Madness or other fruit based hot sauce, plus
2 teaspoons Baking powder
2 cups Flour
1 Carrot (grated)
1 Apple (grated)
1 cup Raisins
1 cup Nutmeats (I use walnuts)
1 cup Chopped dates (optional)
½ cup Fresh grated ginger or candied ginger

Directions

Mix first three ingredients together and blend well. To this add the spices, hot sauce and baking powder - blend well. Add the flour and then fold in the rest of the stuff. This makes a pretty thick batter.

Grease and flour a ring mold. Pour in batter and bake at 400 degrees Farenheight for about an hour or until set. Do not overbake.

(Purists can put the batter in a pudding mold and boil it for 3 hours!) Cake keeps well if wrapped and stored in a cool place. I like to wrap it in cheesecloth soaked in cream sherry and then wrap in aluminum foil but this can be omitted.

Posted to CHILE-HEADS DIGEST V3 #200 From: Lorraine Heidecker <lheid@...> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 17:51:42 -0700 (PDT)

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