Pain D’Épices - Spiced French Gingerbread Loaf With Honey - cooking recipe

Ingredients

100 g honey
140 g wholemeal flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
100 ml milk
1 egg
40 g butter
65 g soft brown sugar
40 g crystallized ginger, chopped in to small pieces
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon quatre-epices (4-spice powder, usually made of pepper, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon)

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 180C/360\u00b0F.
Warm the milk and then add the honey, sugar and butter stirring well.
Put the flour, baking powder, ground ginger and quatre -epices in a mixing bowl, make a well in the middle, break the egg into it, and add the milk mixture. Mix well (or just throw the whole lot into a food processor). Add the crystallised ginger and mix well once again.
Pour into a well buttered 23-cm loaf tin and bake for 25 minutes. Lower the heat to 150C/300F and cook for a further 15 minutes. Remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.
Store wrapped in clingfilm to keep it moist.