Recipe - St Giles Faire Gingerbread

3 Eggs
1 cup Honey
One half cup Shortening (suet, marg,
whatever)
One half teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
One half teaspoon Ground nutmeg
1 (to your taste) Tbsp ground
ginger (up to 3)
1 tablespoon Mango Madness or other fruit
based hot sauce, plus
2 teaspoon Baking powder
2 cup Flour
1 Carrot (grated)
1 Apple (grated)
1 cup Raisins
1 cup Nutmeats (I use walnuts)
1 cup Chopped dates (optional)
One half cup Fresh grated ginger or
candied ginger

Mix first three ingredients together and blend well. To this add the
spices, hot sauce and baking powder blend well. Add the flour and then
fold in the rest of the stuff. This makes a pretty thick batter.

Grease and flour a ring mold. Pour in batter and bake at 400 degrees
Farenheight for about an hour or until set. Do not overbake.

(Purists can put the batter in a pudding mold and boil it for 3 hours!)

Cake keeps well if wrapped and stored in a cool place. I like to wrap it in
cheesecloth soaked in cream sherry and then wrap in aluminum foil but this
can be omitted.

Posted to CHILEHEADS DIGEST V3 #200

From: Lorraine Heidecker lheid@saclink.csus.edu

Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 17:51:42 0700 (PDT)