Yorkshire Gingerbread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 eggs
125 g brown sugar
150 g butter
250 g black treacle
250 g flour
2 tablespoons ground ginger
1 tablespoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon lemon juice

Preparation

Heat oven to 150\u00b0C.
Cream butter and brown sugar until creamy.
Add 1 egg at a time incorporating well.
Sift all dry ingredients together.
Add treacle and lemon juice to the butter/egg mix.
Gently fold in the dry ingredients then pour into a lined 7 inch square cake tin.
Bake for 1 hour. Cool in tin for 20 mins before turning out.
Serve buttered.