Sticky Gingerbread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

500 g plain flour
2 tablespoons ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon salt
250 g muscovado sugar
175 g butter
175 g golden syrup
175 g black treacle
300 ml milk
1 egg

Preparation

Set oven to 160\u00b0C Grease a 11 x 9\" tin with baking parchment.
Sift the flour, ginger, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a bowl. Place the sugar, butter, syrup and treacle in a pan and heat until the butter has just melted. Don't allow it to get too hot.
Stir in the milk then beat in the egg. Pour in the dry ingredients and beat together.
Pour immediately into baking tin and bake for 1-1/4 hours until firm to the touch. Allow to cool for 10 minutes, then turn out of tin and allow to cool completely.
NB You can also add a few finely chopped pieces of stem ginger to the mix if you wish.