Gingerbread
Gingerbread: a dessert recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook that serves 10 and takes about 80 minutes. Recipe source: “Gingerbread”, Wikibooks Cookbook contributors, en.wikibooks.org, CC BY-SA 4.0 (adapted). Photo: cj from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- Total time
- 80 min
- Servings
- 10
- Calories
- 296
- Protein
- 4g

Ingredients
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Step 1
Put the butter, sugar, and syrup in a saucepan. Heat gently until the butter melts.
Step 2
Place the dry ingredients in a bowl. Pour the melted butter mixture into the bowl, and beat thoroughly.
Step 3
Warm the milk in a saucepan (so it will dissolve the syrup).
Step 4
Add the milk to the bowl, and beat thoroughly.
Step 5
Beat the eggs, and then stir them in to the mixture.
Step 6
Pour the mixture into an 8-inch (20 cm) greased square cake tin.
Step 7
Bake at 170°C (325°F) for 1 hour.
Step 8
Cool in the tin for 15 minutes, then remove.
Step 9
Leave at least 1 day before cutting into squares. Serve.
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