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Lancashire Parkin

1½ pounds fine oatmeal ½ pound butter 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ pound Five Roses flour ½ pound cooking sugar 1 pound molasses. 1 egg 2 cups milk.

Dissolve the soda in the milk. Melt the butter and molasses together. Beat the egg in, and add the soda last. Mix well.

Bake in slow oven in dripping tin. (Without Eggs) No. 1 1 pound Five Roses flour ¼ pound sugar 3 ounces butter 3 ounces lard ½ gill syrup A little milk 1 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda.

Roll out thin and bake 20 to 30 minutes in a moderate oven. (Without Eggs) No. 2 1¼ pounds fine oatmeal 1 ounce ground ginger 10 ounces moist sugar ½ pound Five Roses flour ½ pound syrup A little milk Warm the milk with the syrup and add enough to the dry ingredients to make a stiff paste. Pour into a greased tin, and bake slowly for about 1 hour.

FIVE ROSES is packed to suit the convenience of housewives in clean, new bags of 7 pounds, 14 pounds, 24 pounds, 49 pounds, 98 pounds; also in barrels of 196 pounds and half-barrels of 98 pounds.