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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
Gingerbread
dessert

Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. Step 1

    Put the butter, sugar, and syrup in a saucepan. Heat gently until the butter melts.

  2. Step 2

    Place the dry ingredients in a bowl. Pour the melted butter mixture into the bowl, and beat thoroughly.

  3. Step 3

    Warm the milk in a saucepan (so it will dissolve the syrup).

  4. Step 4

    Add the milk to the bowl, and beat thoroughly.

  5. Step 5

    Beat the eggs, and then stir them in to the mixture.

  6. Step 6

    Pour the mixture into an 8-inch (20 cm) greased square cake tin.

  7. Step 7

    Bake at 170°C (325°F) for 1 hour.

  8. Step 8

    Cool in the tin for 15 minutes, then remove.

  9. Step 9

    Leave at least 1 day before cutting into squares. Serve.

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