Recipe

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• 1 cup plain flour
• 1/2 cup self raising flour
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 3 tsp ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1/2 cup water
• 125 g butter

• 1 Preheat oven to 170 degree Celsius.
• 2 Grease and line a loaf tin.
• 3 Melt butter, water and honey together in a small pot or in microwave.
• 4 Sift flours, bicarbonate of soda, gound ginger, nutmeg, salt and mix in brown sugar well.
• 5 Mix melted ingredients with dry ingredients either with a mixer, food processor, stab blender or the old fashioned spoon or whisk (it is a thick mixture).
• 6 Pour into prepared tin.
• 7 Bung in the oven and cook for 45 minutes (test with skewer and if dry o'kay) if not could require up to another 15 minutes.
• 8 Don't ask me why but it always takes somewhere between 45 to 60 minutes to cook and never the same twice and I've been cooking it for 25 years.