'Famous Wrexham Gingerbread' - first cooked up in 1870
Post categories: History & Memories,ÌýWrexham
| 08:26 UK time, Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Just wanted to share a snippet of info which popped up in my feedreader this morning while trawling the web for new links using the tag 'Wrexham'.
The website which revives old recipes has unearthed one from 1870 - the . [Are you aware of it and do you still use?] Here are the ingredients.
Equal quantities of flour, butter, molasses, and loaf-sugar; the butter, sugar, and molasses to be made hot; then mix in, by degrees, the flour, the rind of a lemon, and ginger to your taste; drop it on buttered tins, leaving a space between, and bake it in a rather quick oven. Take it off with a knife, and to make a variety, roll some over a stick when warm, to look like wafers.
says the recipe is found in the oldest magazines in their collection, the May 1870 issue of Peterson's magazine.
Thanks to the wonders of the web, we have come across an in a trade directory of 1859, John Jones' Wrexham and Its Neighbourhood in which there is an advert for 'James Ollerhead, Confection, fancy Bread & Biscuit Maker (famous Wrexham Gingerbread)'.
So Wrexham's 'famous gingerbread' was famous 159 years ago. Any bakers out there still making it today or interested in reviving the recipe?
