#Yorkshire Parkin

[charlotte-bopp]

Day 21- baking. Hetty is baking some tasty Yorkshire parkin. Parkin is a tray bake that is all sticky, gingery and treacley. It is a classic baked good made in Yorkshire in autumn especially around bonfire night.

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[comingfromastatechampionasshole]

Making Yorkshire Parkin: When You Want to Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November (but you forgot)

I bought Lyle’s Golden Syrup on a whim in our international grocers months ago, nestled between the Marmite and jarred clotted cream. I didn’t know what golden syrup tasted like, I had no use for it, and no recipe I had ever read included it. Naturally, I bought it immediately. Walking by the racks of Japanese candy and multiple incidences of ramen noodles, I asked myself, “Is there a particular reason I’m buying this, or am I just pissed they don’t have Walker’s and don’t want to walk away empty-handed?” 

Months later, I end up watching a video on parkin. Uses golden syrup. In this moment, the stars align. 

How did I stumble on this? Well, I’m interested in historical food, and even more so historical baking, and November was coming up. Try the Guy Fawkes day cake, it proclaimed to me, and as I watched it, and it was described to me as an English gingerbread-style cake, i thought, “There’s nothing about that idea I don’t like! I can make parkin, it can’t be that hard. Not like i’m going to be able to buy it here to try it.” 

And hard is not the word for it. Let’s go on a journey. 

So the first thing is, that Yorkshire parkin isn’t the only parkin in town and so, as I glanced at recipes, i discovered that there were multiple theories of the business, and many of these theories involved insulting each others’ grandmothers. Lancashire parkin uses mainly golden syrup, resulting in a sweeter and softer-flavored cake, and I guess that’s why the only things a civilized human being knows about Lancashire is that it’s in the North of England, and it features in the Merrily Song from the Wind and the Willows. No, the more I read, the more I realized I wanted Yorkshire parkin, a dark, aggressive form of the cake that makes heavy use of black treacle and threatens to kick your teeth in. It’s no wonder that Yorkshire gets all the great wonders of the North, like Wuthering Heights, The Secret Garden, and that one pizza place I really liked. 

It turns out that Yorkshire parkin uses a very small amont of golden syrup, and so you may be saying to yourself at this point, “Doc are you unnecessarily complicating your life to say you literally opened this stupid plastic bottle of sugar syrup?” to which I say, ‘No one asked you, okay?” 

Black treacle is the first thing on this list, and this was actually the easy part. One of the ‘fun’ things about reading recipes from English to English (and sometimes even to English!) is that you have to make substitutions, and people’s attitude toward substitutions for ingredients run the gamut from questionable to hysteria. The good news is that this unites us all, and I am sure there will be several fine Brits yelling at me that unsulfured molasses is nothing like black treacle, in the same way that many Americans lost their mind at the mere suggestion that a digestive might be more or less equivalent to a graham cracker. I welcome your hatemail, Hail Satan , Lord of Spiders, just use unsulfured molasses and you’ll be fine. 

But then we have the problem of “medium oatmeal.” The Brits are running on a completely different system than we are with our paltry three or so styles of oatmeal: Rolled, steel cut (often called Irish oats), and instant. There are some outliers, but they are mostly the exclusive purview of places where one might buy free-range ostrich farts and consensually squeezed oranges. Meanwhile, on a rainy rock in the North, we have seventeen separate grades of oatmeal, some of which are only found on one specific moor where young maidens cry over it, keening into the wind (An expensive delicacy not unlike kopi luwak) Try as I might, I found it near impossible to get medium oatmeal, and so I took the most reasonable out possible: Buying steel cut oats and frantically googling photos of medium oatmeal until I had processed it down to the rough appearance. 

This is medium oatmeal. Probably. 

The assembly of it is stunningly old-fashioned, and I’m not making a joke when I say it seems basically unchanged from the 1700s: You mix the sugar and butter ingredients together in a sauce pan until the sugar melts, and then throw it into the dry mix, putting it together and then throwing in an egg as some desperate attempt to give so loft to what is going to be a doorstop or perhaps the blunt object that was originally used to kill Guy Fawkes, as well as a splash of milk, though what it hopes to contribute to the action I can’t possibly imagine. 

Having read over all this at 9:30 pm on the 5th of November, I ready myrself to assemble the parkin so I can leave it out for King James or whatever. Then I read the cook time on the cake: Seventy to Ninety Minutes. 

“Fuck this shit, I’m American,” I said, cracking open a beer and heading upstairs with my sixteen guns while eagles cried and sang “God Bless The USA” overhead. 

REMEMBER, REMEMBER, THE SIXTH OF NOVEMBER, WHEN ALL THESE INGREDIENTS ARE STILL SITTING IN MY KITCHEN. 

So, I have followed the recipe. The cake is in the oven. What will it become? Stay tuned!

#Food writing

[lycomorpha]

The Flora of AC Valhalla: Food plants in Avaldsnes and Stavanger

I want to talk about the edible plants we see early on in ACV in Norway, because they're such an integral part of human existence! However...

Crops/economic botany is not my area of expertise

Neither is Norwegian food history

As a very part-time interloper and not an Actual Norwegian, I do not want to end up in an argument about grøt

The secret to a long and happy life is... Don't argue with; your Yorkshire relations about parkin, French friends & fam about butter, or Norwegian folks about grøt (which is porridge, but more so.) Trust me on this. But since we often forget to notice the plant materials that feed/clothe/shelter us every day, I'm gonna wade in anyway and link to more expert folks on porridge (bc I know my limits, lol.)

One other fun thing to note is that there's a reconstructed viking-era farm at present-day Avaldsnes, on the island of Bukkøy (which is also represented in-game as a small wooded island full of deer, just off Avaldsnes.) So if by chance you ever found yourself in the area in summer when it's open, you could find out a lot more on what the settlement and its crops might have looked like IRL.

Cultivated plants in Avaldsnes

We see crop plants as soon as we sneak into Avaldsnes. The first thing I noticed is a field of oats, and nearby is a cart with bundles of oats and another grain - probably barley or rye rather than wheat in this time period. This is where discussion of grøt & other skjemat (literally "spoon-food") would come in if I was feeling brave or foolish... Instead let me point to this lovely piece on the history of porridge as a staple in Norway, which includes links to recipes. Also here's an explainer of skjemat. One way or another I'm betting Eivor ate a lot of porridge, savory and sweet, because it's good stuff.

I also saw some fields out in the distance, past the oats and outside the restricted area...

And when I got there one was full of conifer saplings, and the other with dried flower or seed heads I can't identify. Most histories (in English at least) associate Norse settlers with deforestation. But there's evidence of them coppicing in England and growing orchards in France. So arboriculture in ACV's world doesn't seem too wild an idea.

I've no idea what the dried seeds/flowers are, and AFAIK there are few if any written herbals from the era. There are many plants listed in the present day region which have seed heads you could dry, but I recall some Danish research looking at archeological evidence of medicinal herbs used in medieval settlements? I might pick that up with the herbarium folks and see if they know anything - there is at least one person there that has studied old herbal texts and how they were compiled. I'm curious to know what plants Eivor would have known about/used!

Food plants and herbs in dwellings

In both Avaldsnes and Stavanger, we see food in and outside of the homes. Vegetables include cabbage, onion, and carrots - I like that the carrots are white, which they apparently were at this point in history. Cabbage and related vegetables can grow in quite cold winters (I wonder if the Raven clan would've had the same fkn whitefly problems we get on them, lol!) There's also bread... Some cheese on the shelf to go with I think? Nice.

I'm not sure what the herbs hanging up are, some look dry and others fresh. No doubt Norse travellers would have brought tasty culinary herbs from their travels, and maybe cultivated them as well as native medicinal/edible species. Seeing fruit & veg food outside in the snow reminds me of hanging milk and fresh food in a bag outside my room on a window ledge when the temperature allowed - so that it didn't get pinched from a shared fridge!

From a sync point in Stavanger you look can out over the town and see fields of oats here too. Having been to Stavanger, it was cool to imagine the port, new and old town in the distant past. The weirdest thing for me was seeing the coastline very simplified. It's a bit like how some of the counties in England where I've lived (and live now) look oddly glued together in game. Not complaining tho. Obviously there's only so much detail you need/is practical to include in a game! It just bends my brain a little.

But I did enjoy one joke that is included in the map; a small island for you to practice raiding called 'Ikke en Oy'. The words "ikke en øy" literally mean "not an island" in Norwegian, so I'm guessing that was an amusing way of saying "yeah, we made this lil bit of land up!"

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[parkinandlee]

We’ve joined tumblr!! Hello blog fam 👋🏻

Our first introduction:

We are the parkin family from West Yorkshire, England. We are known on Instagram (@parkinandlee) for our hikes around the UK but we have created what we hope will be a beautiful blog here to share everything at home with our family.

In 2022 we became a 3 with our newest edition Freddie & in 2023 we were blessed to move into our new home ‘The Parkin House’. We live in a converted 5 bed stone built home and spend everyday outside working & enjoying all the beautiful nature our land brings.

If you love all things gardening, nature, wildlife, farming, countryside and hiking I hope you’ll follow along.

Laurie, Matt & Freddie.

#nature #garden #gardening #home #rural life #agriculture #farmlife #plants #flowers #family #hiking #outdoors #uk

[i-love-books-because-reasons]

1915 Yorkshire Parkin for Bonfire Night

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[dr-ladybird]

So it turns out, an old-fashioned Yorkshire parkin is supposed to contain oat FLOUR. Not porridge oats. I don’t know how I misread that. Seemed a bit weird to be putting porridge oats in a cake, but, like, what do I know about ye olde north English recipes? I know they like oats?

Sorry Yorkshire - I think I prefer my confused version with chunks of oat in it. fun texture. I have done something odd to your recipe and it’s now my “oat spice cake” recipe with vague traditional inspiration. it’s also really good made with coconut oil (relative has a bad dairy allergy) and bits of coconut and covered in peanut butter.

thank you for the inspiration Yorkshire. idk what I made but it’s good

[aloneinstitute]

Ay up folks, its Yorkshire Day! A celebration every year on 1st of August of this wonderful, diverse and culturally rich part of England.

Yorkshire ties as my favourite region in England with Northumberland and I flip flop between which one we want to end up living in (The Yorkshire Dales or the Northumberland coast). From its wild moorlands of Bronte country, to its bustling industrial mill towns of Leeds and Halifax, to its beautiful seaside towns and fisherman’s villages, the rolling hills and drystone walls of the Yorkshire Dales and beyond it isn’t hard to see why Yorkshire has earned the moniker “God’s own country” by its proud inhabitants. So to celebrate this wonderful place here’s a few facts about York’shr.

Yorkshire is the largest county in the UK and covers a large part of Northern England, that’s a whopping 2.9 million acres- ee ba gum!. It is BIG, so big that over the years it was often subdivided into smaller jurisdictions for admiration purposes, most notably the areas of North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire. While each of these regions certainly has its own distinct geography, accent, culture and history to explore, Yorkshire as a whole has always continued to be recognised as a geographic territory and cultural region. Yorkshire may be big now but it used to be bigger! Until 1974 it covered parts of what are now County Durham, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and the Tees Valley. Yorkshire also has nearly a third of the total area of National Parks in England (the North York Moors, most of the Yorkshire Dales and part of the Peak District) covering a fifth of the region’s land area.

Yorkshire also lays claim to being home to some of Britain’s ‘oldest’ things including the oldest known city in Britain, Ripon, which was granted a charter by at least 886. Scarborough on the coast was Britain’s first seaside resort, established in 1660 after the discovery of the ‘healing’ spring waters which later would form the spa. The oldest registered visitor attraction in England is Mother Shipton’s Cave and Petrifying Well in Knaresbough, North Yorkshire which has been welcoming tourists since at least 1630. Sheffield FC is the oldest football club in the world founded in 1857. The county is also home to Britain’s oldest pub (and perhaps the oldest pub in the world), The Bingley Arms in Bardsey dates from AD 953 to the days of the Vikings and has been serving beer for over 1,000 years. Speaking of pubs, Yorkshire is also home to England's highest pub, The Tan Hill Inn which sits 1,732 ft above sea level at a point where the counties Yorkshire, Durham and Cumbria meet. You might recognise it from the Christmas Waitrose advert where everyone got snowed in!

As well as the ‘oldest’, Yorkshire lays claim to some other great feats! The county has over 2,600 ancient monuments of national importance (14% of the English total), 800 conservation areas and 116 registered parks & gardens. The North York Moors Railway is the longest steam operated railway in the UK, with over 18 miles of track running through the countryside from Pickering to Whitby. The city of York has the longest city walls in England, at three miles long, and they enclose an area of around 263 acres. York Minster is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe, it took 252 years to build in its present form and contains 128 medieval stained glass windows and York’s Shambles is considered to be the best-preserved medieval street in Europe.

The emblem of Yorkshire, the white rose of the House of York is instantly recognisable for many and flies on flags across the county. The county is well known for its distinct culture, from its dialect to its food. This county gave us Parkin, Yorkshire curd tarts, Wensleydale cheese, Pontefract cakes and by far its most outstanding contribution to English culture; the Yorkshire pudding which makes up THE MOST IMPORTANT part of our Sunday dinner!

The unofficial anthem of Yorkshire is the popular folk song On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at (“On Ilkley Moor without a hat”) which showcases some of the distinct words and pronunciations the region is known for. The dialect is old and has roots in Old English and Old Norse, being known as Broad Yorkshire or Tyke. Known for expressions like ayup, reet good, put ‘wood int ‘ole (close the door), shut thee cake oyle (shut your mouth) this county is still a glorious bastion of reet proper English as it was meant to be, home to northern and regional diversity that is fast disappearing. I will leave you to puzzle over this poem by about Yorkshire by Eric Scaife;

We’re a rare strange bunch ‘at live up ‘ere

But we’ve gradely grub an’ champion beer

An’ mony a famous name thou’l see

On Yorksheer own proud family tree.

Oor sportin’ ways are second ter none

Oor art an’ culture speak as yan

Us Yorksheer fowk ev Yorksheer ways

An’ when we say we laiks we plays.

Oor language is t’ English true

Oor thee, thou, tha’s are nothin’ new

Wi’ glottal stops an’ aitches dropped

The G at end is allus cropped.

So com’ thi ways to oor grand county

An’ sample sum o’ Yorksheers bounty

Oor ales are grand, oor looance too

An’ friendly fowk to welcome thoo.

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So today lads and lasses ‘sit thi sen darn’, put yus feet up, hav’ a proper brew of Yorkshire tea and enjoy some of my favourite photos I have taken around Yorkshire. Happy Yorkshire Day!

[patcaps]

Favourite Yorkshire food?

parkin!

send me “what’s your favourite?” asks

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[fullasanegg]

Hairy Biker's Parkin (but not really)

Parkin is from yorkshire and is a spiced cake that contains oats and treacle. It’s best to leave it for a few days after you bake it before eating, as the outside of the cake becomes lovely and sticky from the treacle. It’s traditionally served around Bonfire Night (or Guy Fawkes Night), which incase you don’t know, is celebrated in most of the UK on the 5th November. It remembers the events of…

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#Cake #Ginger #Gingerbread #Hairy Bikers #Parkin #Recipes

[yorkshire-rockchick]

Cookie, the cat, and I have Parkin (Yorkshire Ginger cake for those who don't know) and some AFC Richmond fics to read, so we are having a good day

[russellharvey16]

Ginger Cake Recipe

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But some of the visually stunning bakes is this Battenberg cake recipe. In a separate small mixing bowl, beat the butter until easy. Serve the loaf heat with custard and a cup of tea to make a beautiful pudding (meaning dessert in general, not American pudding!).

Elements Metricus Customary 1x2x3x

Each could be made and saved within the fridge for up to per week. The chocolate cake may additionally be made prematurely and frozen for up to a month. A fool is a basic British and Irish dessert that's often made with whipped cream and cooked fruit. This quick model makes use of rhubarb and berries. Fond reminiscences surround this traditional college lunch dessert.

Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl and stir in any of the sticky residue that’s collected there.

When the cake is cooked, remove it from the oven and allow it to chill for 5-10 minutes.

Sift the dry components collectively into a big bowl.

Turn up the heat and bring the mixture to only below boiling level.

I love to read them and answer your questions.

Grease and line a 28x18cm/11x7in baking tin with baking paper.

As with the basic gingerbread men recipe, the wet ingredients are combined over a gradual heat to make it easy and lump free. Moist and dense , this single-layer cake is tremendous ginger-y thanks partially to the addition of ginger syrup. If Ginger spice 're a fan of ginger and its spicy kick of heat, you'll love this fast and simple cake.

📋 Recipe

Place on centre shelf of 180° C (350° F) oven for minutes. Bake at 340 F for minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Copyright © 2023 King Arthur Baking Company, Inc. Let's have fun the legacy of Black baking In my Old-Fashioned Coconut Cake, there's history in each slice. Adjust the quantity of spices, based on your desire.

Make certain that the frosting is good and clean and no giant chunks of cream cheese remain. As soon as you've poured the syrup onto the flour, fill the saucepan with scorching water and leave to soak or it is going to be difficult to scrub. It's really easy to make - just melt the butter and sugars and mix with the dry ingredients. Of course, it wouldn't be a ginger cake guide without including the well-known Yorkshire parkin. If you may have time, wrap in foil and leave for 3 to five days before eating, during which time it will become softer, stickier and all of the extra scrumptious. This top-notch showstopper, with ornamental golden brown Italian meringue, completely screams Bonfire Night.

How To Prepare Dinner Potatoes

Next add the eggs and molasses and blend properly. Pour the combination into the prepared tin and bake in the midst of the oven for 35–40 minutes, or till golden-brown and the top is springy to the contact. 4oz ginger is 115 grams which I weighed out precisely and was capable of grate it really nice. I will try it again however will tweak it. I love those recipes which have somewhat slider that immediately converts it all..... Peel, slice, and chop the ginger very nice with a knife .

#Ginger Powder #Ginger spice #Ginger cake #Gordon Ramsey's Jamaican Ginger cake #Best Curry Powder

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

UNDERRATED BRITISH ROCK WITH A "GLAMMY" SUPER-SEVENTIES SOUND.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a '70s gem of a rock band/album that I really got into criminally late in life (not even five years ago!) -- "Axe Victim" is the debut album by English rock band BE-BOP DELUXE, released in June 1974 under the Harvest label.

OVERVIEW: "When Be Bop Deluxe's first album was released during the glam rock wave in 1974 and the band (then comprised of Bill Nelson and Ian Parkin on guitars, Robert Bryan on bass, and Nicholas Chatterton-Dew on drums) turned up on the back of the record cover in heavy makeup, it was viewed as being in the David Bowie mold, which certainly took in Nelson's thin but confident tenor vocals and the uptempo rock approach, and even ballads like "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" that sounded a lot like Bowie's "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide." But it was already obvious that Nelson was an unusually lyrical guitar slinger, and in fact the tunes often took a back seat to his sometimes jazzy, sometimes metal-ish excursions. He was, as he sang, "an axe victim," but at the same time, Be Bop Deluxe's musical identity was uncertain."

-- ALLMUSIC (review by William Ruhlmann)

Source: www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/4662738013.

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[askwhatsforlunch]

Parkin

I’ve always wanted to make Parkin, and on Bonfire Night, it is traditional to enjoy this superbly moist, fragrant and indulgent cake in Yorskhire. The hint of ginger gives it a kick and keeps one warm on a chill November night. Guy Fawkes’ Night might look a little bit different this year, but the absence of fireworks and gatherings doesn”t mean you can’t enjoy a treat! Have a good one!*

*Obviously, it was supposed to post yesterday, Guy Fawkes and his mates plotted to blow out the Houses of Parliament on a 5th of November; but the great thing about Parkin, besides its taste, is that you wrap it in baking paper and tin foil and it keeps very well; so you can enjoy it long after Bonfire Night!

Ingredients (makes about 12 squares):

250 grams/8.8 ounces plain flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 heaped teaspoons ground ginger

100 grams/3.5 ounces rolled oats

200 grams/7 ounces Lyle’s Golden Syrup

85 grams/3 ounces Lyle’s Black Treacle

85 grams/3 ounces demerara sugar

200 grams/7 ounces unsalted butter

1 large egg

4 tablespoons milk

Preheat oven to 160°C/320°C. Generously butter a rectangular brownies tin. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, combine plain flour, baking powder, ground ginger and rolled oats. Give a good stir; set aside.

In a large saucepan, combine Golden Syrup, Black Treacle and demerara sugar. Cut butter into large chunks and add to the saucepan. Heat over a medium flame, stirring often until butter and sugar are melted, and well-blended. Remove from the heat. Let cool very slightly, a couple of minutes or so.

In a small bowl, break the egg. Whisk in milk; set aside.

Stir flour and oat mixture into the treacle mixture, until just blended. Then, add the egg and milk mixture, and give a good stir until prefectly mixed. Pour batter into prepared tin, and place in the middle of the hot oven. Bake, at 160°C/320°F, 1 hour, until firm and just a little bit crusty on the sides. Remove from the oven, and let cool completely (...or not, it is pretty nice warm, too!)

Enjoy a square or two of Parkin, with a nice cuppa! Happy Bonfire Night!

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[mariekavanagh]

8 for the autumn asks :)

8. Do you have any special autumn traditions? What are they?

I traditionally turn a year older every October lolol 

Every November throughout my childhood my mum would make Parkin, which is a traditional English cake made from treacle and oats and is eaten on Guy Fawkes Night/Bonfire Night.

It is delish and I still make it myself every year. 

#autumn #asks #there is also a difference between Lancashire Parkin and Yorkshire Parkin #But Lancashire is the best obvs

[piplup-mafia]

Hell ye got me parkin on, like 5 days late but gots to have me yorkshire tradition eventually

#for reference i'm talking about parkin as in the cake not parking with an accent #house smells like black treacle and jerky cos my dad's got that on at the same time #going to uni was hard because that's when i found out that you only have parkin at bonfire night in yorkshire. nowhere else has it. awful #store bought parkin is bad because they just treat it as golden syrup cake when its not its black treacle cake

[mooncraftmagick]

🔥Bonfire Magick🔥

Long before the Gunpowder Plot affair, bonfires were lighted on the hilltops of Ireland and Scotland. In North Wales the autumnal fire was called Coel Coeth; it was accompanied by such ceremonies as leaping through the fire (as on St. John's Eve in Germany and other countries), throwing nuts in the fire, and biting at apples suspended from a string. One sometimes sees people leap across a half-consumed bonfire on the 5th of November, saying in excuse that it was an old custom.

Even the parkin and toffee of the 5th of November may be relics of the ceremonial cakes formerly offered - perhaps a symbol of sacrifice dating from pagan times. In parts of Yorkshire All Hallows' Eve is still called "cake night," and an old Halloween custom everywhere was "going a-soul-ing," or begging for soul-cakes. Happy Bonfire Night magickal ones. 💙

Image: The Bonfire Night procession in Lewes. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/REUTERS. Source: theguardian.com.

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