Lindsay Joiner's Gingerbread Loaf

Ingredients

• 120g Butter
• 170g Dark Treacle
• 50g Golden Syrup
• 200g Brown Sugar
• 1 cup Milk
• 2 Eggs
• 250g Plain Flour
• 1 Heaped Tsp Mixed Spice
• 1 Level Tsp Bicarb of Soda
• 2 Level Tsp Ground Ginger
• 120g Sultanas
• Crystallized Ginger chopped.  Add to taste.

Method

Grease and line a 20cm square cake tin. Using a large saucepan warm together butter, treacle, syrup and sugar. Add milk and allow to cool.  

Beat eggs and blend with cooled mixture. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add cooled mixture and sultanas, folding in gently. Turn into greased and lined tin. Bake in a slow oven from 1¼ to 1½ hours. (It may take a little longer depending on your oven) Turn out and cool on a wire tray.