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Parkin, Oldham

Mix together in a bowl three and a half pounds of flour and two pounds of oatmeal. Rub into this two pounds of butter, and add two pounds of sugar, two ounces of ginger, one ounce of ground mace, six ounces of candied lemon, finely chopped, a small nutmeg, grated, and a table-spoonful of carbonate of soda. Mix thoroughly. Warm three and a half pounds of treacle slightly; stir a gill of cream into it, and add the dry ingredients. Leave the mixture to stand all night. Put it into a well-buttered tin, let it rise before the fire for a while, then bake in a moderate oven. This parkin will improve with keeping for three or four weeks.

PARLIAMENT OR "PARLEY" CAKES.

Put two ounces of fresh butter into an earthen jar with one pound of best treacle, and place the jar near the fire until the butter is dissolved. Pour the warmed liquid upon one pound of flour, add a table-spoonful of powdered ginger, a piece of pearlash the size of a nut, and a little alum; beat the mixture until it is smooth, then put it in a cool place until the next day. Roll it out thin, cut it into oblong squares, and bake these on a buttered tin in a moderate oven. Time to bake, from twenty minutes to half an hour. Probable cost, about 8d, for this quantity.