Cornish Recipes > Cornish Fairings
6 cups caster/superfine sugar
4 cups butter
1 cup lard
2 1/2 cups lemon peel
3 cups golden syrup
3 tablespoons bicarbonate of soda
1/8 pint water
1 1/4 tablespoons ground ginger
1 1/2 tablespoons mixed spice
(see measure conversions for more information)
- Mix the spiced with the sugar.
- Put the syrup into a basin on its own.
- Mix the water with the bicarbonate in saucepan and bring it to the boil.
- Pour the bicarbonate and water into the syrup.
- Add the lemon peel.
- Pour this mixture into the flour and butter that was rubber together.
- Add the spices and the sugar and mix to a soft dough.
- Roll out on a floured surface to 1" thickness.
- Cut into strips or rounds.
- Bake in warm oven (see temperature conversions) until cooked.
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How to make Cornish fairings:
These are the old type of gingerbread which was sold at fairs and markets. It is more of a flat biscuit and sometimes it was even gilded with gold leaf. Please remember that this is an old recipe and therefore the quantities listed below are far too large for modern day cooking. The quantities can be reduced proportionally to a more manageable amount.
Ingredients
24 cups flour6 cups caster/superfine sugar
4 cups butter
1 cup lard
2 1/2 cups lemon peel
3 cups golden syrup
3 tablespoons bicarbonate of soda
1/8 pint water
1 1/4 tablespoons ground ginger
1 1/2 tablespoons mixed spice
(see measure conversions for more information)
Method
- Rub the butter into the flour.- Mix the spiced with the sugar.
- Put the syrup into a basin on its own.
- Mix the water with the bicarbonate in saucepan and bring it to the boil.
- Pour the bicarbonate and water into the syrup.
- Add the lemon peel.
- Pour this mixture into the flour and butter that was rubber together.
- Add the spices and the sugar and mix to a soft dough.
- Roll out on a floured surface to 1" thickness.
- Cut into strips or rounds.
- Bake in warm oven (see temperature conversions) until cooked.
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