Sunderland Gingerbread Nuts

Ingredients

• 1-3/4 lb treacle
• 1 lb moist sugar
• 1 lb butter
• 2-3/4 lb flour
• 1-1/2 oz ground ginger
• 1-1/2 oz allspice
• 1-1/2 oz coriander seeds

Instructions

1. Let the allspice, coriander seeds, and ginger be freshly ground;
2. put them into a basin, with the flour and sugar, and mix these ingredients well together;
3. warm the treacle and butter together;
4. then with a spoon work it into the flour, &c., until the whole forms a nice smooth paste.
5. Drop the mixture from the spoon on to a piece of buttered paper, and bake in rather a slow oven from 20 minutes to 1/2 hour.
6. A little candied lemon-peel mixed with the above is an improvement, and a great authority in culinary matters suggests the addition of a little cayenne pepper in gingerbread.
7. Whether it be advisable to use this latter ingredient or not, we leave our readers to decide.